SHEEP CAN BE "PEELED"
Queer Trick By Russian Scientists LONDON. March 28. The Times saysr Largo scalo esperiments in Bussia have demonstrated that shoep's fleeces can be peeled off by pulling gently after loosening the roots, of the wool by feeding and injecting drugs. The subjects of ezperiments ia Moseow, tbe Crimea, Caucasus, and the Ukraine were 500 fine-wooled sheep of the Merino and Rambouillet breed. The drug thalliuTn was employed to loosen the fleeee, almost a complete moult being effeetod in a fortnight, but the sheep can be plucked iu from seven to 10 minutes at stage ^ecgjjiag final -moult,,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 6
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101SHEEP CAN BE "PEELED" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 6
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