Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 142
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to day, because I am now quite satisfied that we possess, in our Argo breed, the best race of Merinos obtainable. When surrounded by the Sheep at Kliphausen & Rothschemberg, it required no great effort of the imagination, to fancy myself at Camden. We have individual Sheep, quite as fine as the best animals in these flocks, and in size and shape far surpassing them; but, as flocks, the Sheep I have seen to day, are, in general fineness of wool, decidedly superior to our flock, at least, to what it was, when I left the Colony.
Considerable improvement has no doubt, already shewn itself from the System of Selection and registry; and perseverance in that system, will I am convinced, ere long, raise our flock to an equal degree of uniform fineness, with the best in Germany.
When I pointed out the family