Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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247 Further a careful study was made of a series of wools contributed by Messrs. Boechtel Brothers, of Willets, Mendocino county, California. These wools were taken from animals produced by the gentlemen named, in the application of a system of crossing thelMerino with the Southdown and Shropshiredown breeds. The object of the examination was to determine the influence of this system of crossing, definitely carried out, upon the character of the staple. The commercial result of this system of crossing is shown in the following table compiled from Messrs. Boechtel Brothers' records: £LP PP TQP « P o'p CD ^ p <i £& P C D GO PJHJ IS C D p ^ P'P p i-j ! C p O PiC D C O D §a Ifas P P^ §3g r | O P | tV*3 P M P !?pP P ^ P fKwH q^-pl p " ^ : >Hj P " O P £gp-i £.CD {3 P ^ P ^ £ p O ^ P ; P ^1 jCD p ! C C^-CD D 3 2.P CO P P C D **! hj P p *l CD 'P C D ' ^ P >p C D 1 P S^> CD"*"* S P B^"cS P t^GCP P C D O VM*J3 • cc O I • ! §1 Lbs. P C D 03 C D : P Lb Cts. Lbs.! L b L b i L b s . L b s . Lbs.! L b s . L b s . L b s . I 60 84 97 70 90 88 75 55 90 80 1874-75 1875-76 1876-77 1877-78 1878-79i 1879-801 1880-81] 1881-82 1882-83 1883-84 367 357 366J 365 366! 3661 373 355 3751 356 245! 4.60 j 2 3 ^ 1 22 ....14. 409 5.49 16.2 781 16.4 20 4 519 6.19 23.5,1 28 17.41 76 4 6287.11 20 |1 22 17 1124 514 8.67 21.4 1 73! 19.21 168!. 63517.991 25.611 861 16.5 •228|.. 55l!8.74J 26.4 2 04 15 1151 5598.14 2 1 . 1 1 531 14 58418.92 19 ia /ioil 481 *13 ,711,8.02 17 9 /i6|l 10| *14.1 11.22 10.36 8.78 11.06 9.12 8.75 8.521 9.44 10.70 8 ' 10.05| 10.97 8.221 9.14 8.27 9.44 1.63 * 7 Grade, 1 Merino. The results here exhibited show the valuable influence of t h e Merino blood in increasing the weight of fleece in the down races, and it is believed that this system of crossing so intelligently carried out must produce eventually a race capable of producing at the same time large fleeces of good wool for the factory and large carcasses of good mutton for the shambles. Again, an opportunity was afforded us to make comparison of the wools of the Negretti and the Saxon types, and of these wools with those from American Merinos. These foreign wools were represented by a lot of samples secured from a flock of Negrette sheep just imported to this country, and another lot of samples sent over by Herr Otto Steiger, a noted breeder of Saxon sheep. It would be impossible here to enter into the details of the results obtained in these three branches of investigation, and we must be content with presenting only the conclusions arrived at from their consideration. With regard to the Merino wools from different sections of t h e United States, then, we find: 1. Different fibres in any given sample may vary in diameter throughout their length from 5 to 15 per cent, of the average.
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