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SHEEP 



medium grade. Shaw and Heller state l that twenty-five samples 

 of Dorset fleece were graded upon the Philadelphia market for 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, fifteen of which 

 were three-eighths-blood combing and the other ten quarter- 

 blood combing wool. The wool is rated as lacking somewhat 

 in weight, but of excellent quality and free from discoloration. 



FIG. 278. A Dorset Horn ewe, champion at the Indiana State Fair, shown by 

 Tranquillity Farm, Allamuchy, New Jersey. From photograph by the author 



"A well-known wool authority," discussing Dorset wool, 2 makes the 

 point that it possesses two advantages over the wool of the Down 

 breeds ; namely, it is pure white when scoured and not a cream 

 white, and it contains no trace of the black or brown fibers invari- 

 ably found in Down wools, consequently its uses are not so lim- 

 ited, as traces of brown fibers found in any wool prevent it from 



1 " Domestic Breeds of Sheep in America," Bulletin 94, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, 1914. 



2 American Sheep Breeder, May, 1918. 



