Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-06-21
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# rams after two or three wears use. and
weed out their increase the Merino a cks
Z that lime would have been ruinpd
The nedigrpa rnmn.irter. in their report
nr'ned in the first volume Of R"ois,er of
Vermont Sheep Breedt r. A .enci,, ion. sar.
u We admit that our hes a cLs II NJ. ri
's h. We oil and wrinkles in xr. g. of The
'nts If be prncrictl wool grower for
vol hearing sheep. as class. we
n'enh thar We are not hrppdirU alto
'h'r with view Of wnol growing in
N,rmonf, hut our m''st profitable product
Nl"oh. thai will produce lmprovemrn,s
the wool herring capacities uf 4 ks in
"'litiPS where il is hard 10 keep hem nm
he most profitable standard. Hence il
tor our b. 81 interest. ms it is for theirs.
It we shall he aide IN fu,ni h them wrh
"ep having these qualities In very
ked degree. md gIettly in excess OF
MT may perhaps. br their ideal -
THICKNtss OF FLEFCE.
Here is where the greatest Improvement
= been made and where the orent in
'eased weight OF ti"tce is largely TO be
''nunteh Tor. | have not been able TO
al facts OF the ACTUAL thickness of the
verage M"rino fleece of forty YEARS AGO.
'ereiore cannot make any compnri.on
With its present thickness The oldest
reeders are agreed that the Improvement
this direction has been great. Mr..
ihapman (sfcretary of the Vermont sheep
freeders' As-ociation) had nice Fl coed
I'M that proved not TO be a STOCK vctter
Not wishing to impose upon or cheat ,nv
me, he bad this barren ram killed. One
nph pf thu nall Rvs 4,
vas taken ont and sent to Dr.. Cui,ipo
l"ecretary oil the State Board of Agricul.
nfe) ior him to ascertain the number of
hhres II continued. 1t was found 10 con-
Tin 100000 fihres. This pett was Mt least
m" squlre ward, and if 30, would onn ain
100000 ONO tibres. By counting 8 tihr,s
sec"nd it would take 8 days OF
ours each TO count the inch and about
years 10 count the fihres on the whole
ait If these tibers were 2i inches long
nd placed end to end, they would extend
bout II 0OO miles. Do YOU say that
$4,000 to square inch is impossiblep Il
nay seem 80 at 6rst thought, but think "a
moment. The wool on this pet was bv
c'uai measurement finer than 1000 to the
'ch, but If but 1000 to the inch and the
liores were close together, there would be
0000oO on the inch The Rbres now
'rcupy but about one ffth of the space.
You can press the wool as 1t grows on the
hack OF the sheep In to one-6ftb of he space
occupies. The open space to the occu.
pled on pelt of medium thickness of
WOOL would be about the same as the open
pace In thick timbersd woodland COM
p'red to that uoon which the trees stand.
We see from this that notwithstanding
he Merino fleece is now thick there Is
nom for Improvement In this direction.
lose. thick hreces are necessary 10 our
I'D Climate 10 protect the sheep from Tie
fects of cold and wet.
FINENEss OF FLEECE.
Until recently it was thought that while
WAS an established fact that there had
'Aen improvements in the constitution,
zo, beauty of form and weigh of fleece
'' Merinos, the Quality had become
.1Nrser.
Recent measurement made BY Dr.. Cut
ng, who is acknowledged authority in
scientific investigation, has proved that in
intness and evenness of wool the i'm prove.
nent is nearly equal 10 that made IN any
her direction
In 1896 very accurate measurements Of
'e ze of fbres of Merino anti Saxon
oos we've made under the drec ion of
lr. William Ypuatt. with these results:
'trno WOO LOO OF an inch; snp"r-rlecta
xon wool (Hhich is the finest in the
d "ce) WAS l $40 of an inch
rhe result of DR. Cuttings mea-ure.
'ent~ are these ten fires In each Il .ncn
we're measured: