A prominent Romncy breeder Pounds • note of warnfng to breeders against the tendency to attach exceiiivt value to weight of fleece. He says that as wool is a product of the sheep's body, its growth makes a drain on the animal's constitution. A heavy fleece on an animal well able to carry it is eminently desirable, bat a heavy fleece gained at be expense of the sheep's constitution i* another mattert altogether. "At the present time," says this informant, "our Komneya ore beginning to give wool as heavy as that of Lincoln*.' The justice of this remark regarding Rorr.nry.t has b«<;n confirrrei by exhibits at nearly all th" -ihwvv;', thin ani fori.up.-*
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 20 December 1909, Page 3
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