VARIATION IN PROPERTIES. The wool from dif ferent parts ot the same animal differs greatly in length of fibre, fineness, and structure, As a rule, the best is obtained from the shoulders and sides. That from the fore part is irregular and likely to be filled with burrs, while this loin wool is shorter and coarser, that on the hind quarters still more, and that from the under side of the throat and the belly is likely to be short. \\ OHL a11(1 dirty. As the wool is finer on shoulders, it is likewise superior in soundness of fibre, softness, curl. and evenness of length. Purity of bleed, good general ma nagement. and uniform feeding tend toward greater uniformity of the fibre grown on different parts of the body, where as a period of insnflieient feeding or of ill health leaves a weaker and less healthy fibre at the point represented by it. Such wool is usually noticeably deficient in yolk. The importance of
breeding, climate, and feeding is evidenced by the changes which occur in the wool when sheep of a given breed are removed from one region or district to another quite different. Coleman states that wool in eertain districts of Yorkshire brings a higher price than that of other localities, the advantage being probably due to favorable con ditions of soil and climate. on the other hand, the ability of man to counteract unfavorable con ditions of a particular section is testified to by Lastereye (as quoted by Darwin), who cites the preservation of the Spanish sheep in their utmost purity under such varying condi tions as are found at the Cape of tlood Hope, in the marshes of Holland, and under the rigor ous climate of Sweden, and contends that "fine wool sheep may he kept wherever industrious men and intelligent breeders exist."