Rambouillet merinos have large bodies, usually smooth and free from wrinkles, except perhaps on neck.
Delaine merinos have smoother bodies than the American, and fewer folds and wrinkles.
The merinos constitute the principal and characteristic race of the United States; and this is the most important fact in the enumeration of our resources for sheep husbandry and the wool manufacture.
In 1569 Don Juan Ortiz de Zarate arranged for the importation of four thousand merinos to the River Plate.
In the old days Spain prohibited the export of her valuable merino sheep to foreign countries, but the colonies were fortunate enough not to be included in the prohibition, and in 1550 the first merinosappeared in Tucuman from Peru.
Nor does this indicate all the actual difference, as in the foregoing estimate the live weight of the English breeds is placed low, and that of the Merinos high.
Compulsion was not long necessary; the true interest of the shepherds was discovered; pure Merinos rapidly increased in Saxony, and became perfectly naturalized.
The question, which has been at times raised, whether there are any Merinos in the United States, descendants of the early importations, of unquestionable purity of blood, has been conclusively settled in the affirmative.
It was soon sufficiently apparent that the Merinosdid not degenerate in Saxony.
Besides, as we have already seen, the breeding of merinos is far from being as profitable at this day as it was formerly.
But the merinos require too much care, and I much doubt that they will ever be reared on a large scale by the Cossacks.
Within a week the flock of Merinos was sold, as well, and the money so received was invested in an importation of more Southdowns, with blood as blue as that of the Hapsburgs, and far stronger.
The American Merinos are the best range sheep we have, because they are so hardy and stay together so well.
In 1809 William Jarvis, our consul at Lisbon, brought a considerable number of merinos to Vermont, and from his famous Weathersfield flocks most of the Vermont merinos are descended.
A marked improvement in the fineness and weight of the fleeces began with the introduction of the Spanish merinos in 1809.
During the next ten years the price of wool continued so low that nearly all the flocks of merinos were broken up, or deteriorated through careless breeding.
From the Jarvis importation, and from a small flock of the Infantado family imported about the same time by Colonel Humphreys, our minister to Spain, the most valued merinos are descended.
Merinos were brought to England for the first time in 1788, but attracted little attention, owing to the want of rams.
Once his merinos and angoras were safe across the line Bud would gladly return and help round them up.
To remove black stains on Scarlet Merinos or Broadcloths.
He had about eight hundred graded merinos and a daughter that was solid silk and as handsome as a new stake-rope on a thirty-dollar pony.
He's got eight sections of grazing and four thousand head of the finest Merinos south of the Arctic Circle.
More than fifty years since the Merinos were introduced and extensively bred.
We couldn't have proved he didn't have six fatmerinos in that mangy bunch of sheep.
A second time he emerged from the huddle, again with two fat and woolly merinos ahead of him.
Fat they were and of heavy wool, undoubted merinos both.
The merinos had brought a well-nigh record price--the whole forty having been bought by an up-country stock farm man.
The merinos mayores were, like the adelantados, governors of large districts as well as judges in cases of appeal, for which latter purpose they were assisted by men acquainted with the law.
The merinos menores limited themselves to jurisdiction in certain criminal cases.
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