BEST HOSIERY WOOL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 777, 29 March 1910, Page 10

BEST HOSIERY WOOL.

I [To the Editor.] Sir,—ln your farming notes, in your issuo of the 23rd. instant, under tho heading, ''Breeding Notes. Hastings Demonstration," you quote descriptive remarks 011. Shropshire sheep, by Mr. 11. R. Pitt. His description of the pbints of a Shropshire as a whole is good. '1, however, must take exception to his stating the colour of the hair oil tho legs should be black. It should be as well as 011 tho head a dark chocolate colour. Then, as regards the wool, lib says it should bo without serrations. This assertion, I am inclined to take as a mistake, on tho'part "of tho reporter, as any one who knows anything of the breed, must know that a good crimp (or serration) is the chief characteristic of Shropshire wool. Shropshire wool is tho most valuable wool grown in England, and its valuo because it is, essentially a hosiery wool, owing to its great elasticity, given tp'it by its pronounced crimp, which is one of the great features and beauty of it. .If you see a so-called Shropshire with straight wool--'(or n'asty) you can depend upon it that it is. not clean bred. Shropshire wool should have' a good caven well-defined crimp. like merino, or it loses its. chief, value, its elasticity. 1 The. only wool 1 know which comes- near to Shropshire' wool' in utility for hosiery purposes is a merino wool of great crimp, which comes from Punta Arenas. Trusting, Mr., Pitt will escusc my differing from him in those points, and thanking you, sir; in anticipation, for your .valuable space. —I am, etc., ; -■.■■■ D. D. VAVASOUR. "Ugbrooke, Blenheim, Slarcli 24, 1910.