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A. A ram of twenty-eight inches in height was 

 put to some ewes of twenty inches, and the lambs 

 which were produced were twenty-seven inches high. 



Q. How can the wool be improved? 



A, There are two ways of improving wool, to make 

 it longer and finer. 



Q. What should be done to make it longer ? 



A. The ewes in the flock, which have the longest 



wool, should be coupled with rams, which have still 



longer wool ; the wool of the lambs, which they will 



produce, will become longer than the wool of the 



jlams, and sometimes longer than that of the sires. 



Q. What evidence is there of this increase, in the 

 length of the wool ? 



A. Rams having wool of six inches in length were 

 put to ewes having wool three inches ; the animals 

 produced from this admixture, had it quite five and 

 an half inches long : it would be difficult to credit 

 this great improvement, if the wool had not been 

 seen and measured. 



Q. How can wool be improved in fineness ? 



A. Ewes, which have the finest wool of the flock, 

 intended to be improved, should be selected and put 

 to rams, which have wool still finer. The produce of 

 the two will have finer wool than the dams ; and some- 

 times as fine, and even finer than the rams. 



Q. What proof is there of this improvement in the 

 fineness of the wool ? 



A. Rams having fine wool were put to ewes hav- 

 ing coarse, and the wool produced from the lambs 

 obtained a quality between the two. Ewes with 



