PERUVIAN WOOL
REMARKABLE IMPROVEMENT IN YIELD.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION,) (Received 31st August, 9 a.m.) . LONDON, 29th August.' "Strong hopes are entertained that Peru may soon claim to be ono of the chief wool-producing countries of the world." This optimistic prediction is contained in a repOrfc issued by the Peruvian Consulate-General in London regarding the Government's model farm in Puno, some 12,000 ft above sea level. A few years ago, it will be remembered, 148 stud sheep were exported from Great Britain to Peru by Colonel Stordy. These animals tire now represented by 10,000 splendid sheep, grazing over 18.----000 acres in the Sierras. The wool yield, from these she</»j of the first cross is from 41b to 4jlb per sheep, whereas the old Peruvian sheep gave only IJJb. The increase in value has been even more marked in the old sheep, whose wool only fetched about 9d per lb, while that from t-ie half bred is worth 20d. Thus l£lb of fleece of the old sheep j was only worth 13d, while 4glb of fleece of the halfbred sheep to-day realises 90d.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 53, 31 August 1925, Page 7
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185PERUVIAN WOOL Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 53, 31 August 1925, Page 7
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