MOULTING OF SHEEP
Experiments in Russia London, March 28. •■The Times” says that large-scale experiments in Russia have demonstrated that a sheep’s fleeces can be peeled off by pulling gently after loosening the roots of the wool by feeding and injecting drugs. The subjects of the experiments, which were conducted in Moscow, the Crimea, die Caucasus and die Ukraine, were 500 fine-woolled sheep. The drug thallium was employed to loosen the fleece, an almost complete moult being effected in a fortnight, but the sheep can be plucked in seven to 10 minutes at the stage preceding the final moult.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 156, 30 March 1937, Page 9
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99MOULTING OF SHEEP Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 156, 30 March 1937, Page 9
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