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“merino sheep, and consider them a pipes: vaiinte to dri The 
nape quality of lt, so valuable in coarse appears 
to be fairly well maintained. The aie ‘Lincoln es has been - 
found to cross better with the merino than Leicester or any other — 
: ‘Coarse-w woolled t: type. 
Wing you all the good samples, I must not forsee ae eo 
say that frequently wool comes to our market in a very different eh es 
state from th ou will see the s 23 
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ty within 100 miles of Rockhampton. From its = = _ 
Peculiar barbed formation it will go right through the skin and : 
‘ ‘grass has quite driven sheep away from the coast district of 
ensland, Also, some wool with grass seed, from our own 
ie, is Slav: a small kind of carrot-seed which is aia to get ee : a 
.. All these spoil the wool for re goods, an detraet 
‘tom the value from 2d. to 5d. per lb. 
by : 
ie will now briefly d araw ti i ols, A 
*ppear in. strong contrast with our delicate nigh class merino :— ee 
kindl lent to me by Mr. Chard. ages 
eee ugh to let me me hae a dozen 
a s of cl 
Ns wiih ue ee ey See you. — You w 
‘grown, their measurement - I ice masecomeier 
e per lb. in the London, market in 1878. i tie 
hairs are all picked out from the wool singly 
