Methods for determining length in the Merino fleece

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Bosman, V.
Botha, M.L.

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Pretoria : Government Printer

Abstract

The importance of length as a characteristic of the merino fleece has often been stressed. It has been shown (Bosman 1937) that, in a stud ram producing 40,000 fibres per square inch of skin, every half an inch increase in staple length adds .9 pounds of wool to the scoured fleece, when it is a fine woolled fleece, and 1.4 pounds when it is a course woolled fleece.

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Wool, Merino

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Bosman, V & Botha, ML 1939, 'Methods for determining length in the Merino fleece', Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 261-272