The Green Forest tribune., 1910-06-17

Tho Southdowns Shropshire, Hampshire Dovns Oxford Downs and Dorsets are among the better-known short-wool sheep. The Dorset staple is the shortest.
 The Cbeviot is the best known among the n,ountain breeds. The Chevot is sometimes called middle-Wool sheep.
 The French beeds best known are the Choetaise which carry good fleece, the Lar zac a short thick-set animal with longhbered but rather scanty wool, the Berrichome du Gre van better known for it's heavy milking quali- ties than for wool, and the Manchamp sheep, known as La Chamois, which produces most excellent long and fne-fibered combng wool.
 In addition to the domestic sheep introduced into America by the English Spanish and Portu- guese settlers, South America possesses group of wool-bearing animals which are native to the country This group, the auchenia, is one of the two branches into which the existing genera of the family of the camelidae is divided. The oth- CT branch is the camel (camelus) of the Old World
 Most authorities agree in dividing the au- chenia into four species the guanaco, the vicuna, the llama and the alpaca The two last named not known in the wild state, but were do- mesticated by the native Indians long prior to the coming of the Spaniards to South America. There is no reason to doubt that the guanaco and the vcuna might also be brought under sub- jecton.
 The vicuna is a smaller animal, about the size of the fallow deer. It is found in the high mountains of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, seldom descending below 13,O00 feet. Although 1t may be tanned, 1t is to all intents and purposes a wild animal. It yields an exceedingly fine and delicate wool of reddish-yelow color, which is worth about twice much alpaca.
 The alpaca was the wool-producing animal of the Incas, as it is yet of most of the people of the Andes and the west coast of South America It is found principally in Peru and Bolivia, but does not thrive below about 5000 feet.
 All of the South American countries are pro. ducers of wool from the domestic sheep, and most of them exporters to a greater or less degree; but the recent development of the sheen industry in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile lends particular interest to South America as a pur- veyor of this of the worlds staple articles of trade.
 The annual wool clip of Argentina for the sea. son Of 1S49-50 was S,000,000 kilograms, IT 600 900 pounds. This was respectable showing for the time and gave Argentina a position of impor. tance in the wool trade. The wool, however. was a coarse grade, most of it what is known to the trade as Cordova, used by worsted spinners for carpet yarns In 50 years the industry had in- creased thirtyfold so that the clip of the year 1S99-19O0 was 239,000,000 kilograms-525 800 900 pounds. This represented about one-fourth of the worlds production. The quality of the wool meanwhile had improved
 recent census of the country Q9OS) shows 6r2ll754 sheep It Is almost impossible for the mind to grasp these figures but some idea of their significance can be gained when it is stated that eff the animals were assembled in a gigan. tic drove. 12 abreast they would reach across the continent from New York to San Francisco D This places Argentina second to Australia. which leads the world with over S3,1O0, ,O0O the United States third, with about 56,00O.OOO and England fourth, with about 35,00OO00
 The export of wool from Argentina for the year 1908 amounted to SS6,1S3.O 900 pounds