BEST SHEEP WOOL v. MUTTON.
Is Germany about parting with her reputation for fine and long-carding wool ? It appears that the the French merinoes, the heavy and precocious Rambouillets, ;are coming rapidly into.favor in Northern Germany, Earns of this breed are in great . demand, and many do not hesitate to assert, the wool of the Rambouillets fetches as high a price in the market as any combing wool. This point settled, the others cannot be contested, namely, the precocity of the breed and its superior economic advantages. The Rambouillet sheep are more easily nourished, for an organism of 1401b or 1601b weight exacts leas nutriment and attention than two small ones, A Rambouillet 100 weight, with an unwashed fleece of 81b to 101b, is not to be despised, provided that the wool as it is alleged, brings a top price, thus implying fineness and combing excellences. However, opinion is not at all unan-, imous on the wool superiority, some growers in Germany not allowing a drop of Rambouillet blood to " destroy" their native races, and which they claim can be selected, to develop all the bsasted advantages of the Rambouillets.—Town and Country.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 181, 10 June 1879, Page 2
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192BEST SHEEP WOOL v. MUTTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 181, 10 June 1879, Page 2
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