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NEW SOUTH WALES WOOL
 

SHAWS TREATISE ON WOOL GROWING IN AUSTRALIA
 

This instructive publication exhibits proof of Mr Shaws [Shaw's} perfect knowledge of a subject interesting to the Stockholders of Australia not one of whom should be without a copy -  He divides his treatise into five chapters. His fourth contains directions for breeding the Australian Merino.

     "Let the settlers spend more of their time among  their stock, and as often as convenient pass part of a flock, sheep by sheep, through their hands, examining each, point by point, & they will soon be able to class their own flocks or know when they are classed, Then, and not till then, will they take pleasure in, & devote proper care to their improvement - ["]

      PURE FLOCKS    To redeem these and bring them to the standard of the pure Australian Merino it is only necessary to what would have supported their original character.                                                                                                                                          selection

      FIRST CLASS      Look carefully through the ewes & select all that possess lin perfection the qualities that we have described; the requisite fineness,  with perfect [indecipherable] softness, freeness, fulness [fullness],  & as great length of staple as the country will support.

     SECOND CLASS
                            In this include all with only a moderate deficiency in one or more of the qualities, but still soundness.

     THIRD CLASS

                           In this put all of healthy constitution; Their fleece may be most defective, bu with good rams they may throw back & produce excellent stock. They may have the blood.

                             It is impossible to give directions as to what degree of deficiency should be admitted into the second & third Classes. that, until there is a general fixed [indecipherable] must be regulated by the numbers there are to work upon, but the first Class must be perfect in all points. -  To the first put the best ram that can definitely be procured for loss or money - And when lambing Keep them seperate [separate], or at least mark the lambs as they are dropped, for like produces like, & there is every chance that they are equal to their parents.  Should be fat and thought many of the offspring will have the defects of the mother, still a portion will be found fit for the Class above them.
So soon as they attain an age to show their qualities Say eight months, the lambs of any Class must be carefully selected. Every one with any defect whatever must be registered as Rams, & thrown into the second or third Class of ewes if not altogether rejected

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