 | Edmund Ruffin - 1840 - 790 σελίδες
...fleece (A.) There are two principal classes of sheep in England, the long woolled,and the short woolled. Among these are many varieties, but this is the general...several families. The common clip of the former may be esiimated from seven to eight pounds ; and of the last from three to three and a halfor four. Mr. Webster... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 σελίδες
...fleece. There are two principal classes of sheep in England, the long-wooled and the short-wooled. Among these are many varieties, but this is the general...estimated from seven to eight pounds ; and of the latter, from three to three and a half or four. Mr. Webster mentioned these particulars only as estimates... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...fleece. There are two principal classes of sheep in England, the long-wooled and the short-wooled. Among these are many varieties, but this is the general...the last, from three to three and a half, or four. I mention these particulars only as estimates; and much more accurate information may doubtless be... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 σελίδες
...fleece. There are two principal classes of sheep in England, the long-wooled and the short-wooled. Among these are many varieties, but this is the general...the last, from three to three and a half, or four. I mention these particulars only as estimates ; and much more accurate information may doubtless be... | |
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... raising of sheep in England is an immense interest. England probably clips fifty millions of fleeces this year, lambs under a year old not being shorn. The average yield may be six or seven pounds to a fleece. There are two principal classes of sheep... 