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Germany, finer than our own.
All that we have been told, of their greater weight of fleece, is fabulous. The best German flocks, do not average more than 1¾ lb, per fleece, many of them less.
I am, decidedly. of opinion, that the superiority of the German Wools over ours, in appearance, when offered for Sale, is occasioned, not by their Sheep being intrinsically of superior fineness, but by other circumstances namely, the difference in the condition of the Sheep, in the washing and assorting of the fleeces, and in the distance, which enables the German Wool to be brought to market, in a much fresher State.
These are disadvantages, on our part, which may be more or less obviated. Nor do I think it improbable, that we may be enabled