SHEEP NEED NO SHEARING
CUBIST CATS AND DOGS Sheep which need no shearing, and living rabbite, cats and dogs with fur dyed in geometrieal patterns, are the results of eight years experiments hy a young Soviet scientist. The scientist, Professor Illin, treated a flock of 2500 sheep with chemicals. Ten or 12 days later, says the Tass Agency, they shed their wool. It took between three and seven minutes to remove all the wool from each sheep, compared with an average of 40 minutes for shearing. In addition to chemicals, the use of infra-red and ultra-violet rays has heen employed in the experiments, by which rabbits are reported to have yielded nearly twice as muck down and fur. Rabbits, cats and dogs whose fur has coloured squares, parallelograms, triangles and stars may be seen walking about in Professor Ililin's. lahoratory. By the dyeing process white rabbits have been turned into black ones, and sables and martens made darker, their value thus being increased.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 4
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163SHEEP NEED NO SHEARING Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 4
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