1Fep,, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. IX, 
THE PRINCIPLES OF SHEEP-BREEDING. 
; ve accompanying plates and description of the wools here illustrated should 
_ ive accompanied Mr. J. S. Hermann Schmidt's sixth article on the principles 
a sheep-breeding. Owing, however, to the samples having reached this office 
» ate for our artist to reproduce them, they were necessarily omitted. Those 
j ie Set the numbers bound can have the plates put in their proper place in 
€ volume :— 
Description or Woon SaMPLeEs. 
mite Fine clothing wool, waving indistinct, waves flat not shafty enough and crepy. Texture 
far ; tops too bulky ; density moderate. 
ain Fine clothing wool, waving more distinct, a more shafty formation. Texture clearer ; tops 
00 large and bulky, fair density. 
exp 3. Fine combing ; the shafty formation is more pronounced ; the waving is more clearly 
Tessed. The tops are divided into finer yet blunt pvints. 
dang combing wool of a very clear character ; the staples are flat. Texture slightly watered ; 
air, 
5. Twisted staples. Want of density, associated with great trueness and a true semicircular 
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Ye, has favoured the formation of shafts that have grown up into a twist. 
8. Want of density and of trueness has prevented the formation of solid shafts. 
7, The waving is too distinct, and the staples show inclination to form very small shafts. 
thse The same fault, more pronounced. Texture watered. The shafts assume the shape of 
or threads—want of density. 
we 10, and 11 show how the waves have become too high and distinct. Want of density has 
hreuted the staples from growing in a perpendicular direction. The bulk of the staple is 
W; the points are speary. 
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12, Faulty curly wool, similar to the threads of an unravelled sock. 
Th 13, 14, and 15 show very little or very flat waving, and very little inclination to form shafts. 
Y are still fine good wools. 
much” shows untrueness, whilst a sleek waving is still visible in some parts of the staple. Too 
repy admixtures of untrue fibres. 
YW. The waving has almost disappeared. 
18. The top parts of the staples are much coarser than the lower ones. 
19 and 20 show great untrueness. 
See Smit trgnesemndivantor density approaching mushiness. 
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