While building his house, Custis inaugurated an annual fair designed to improve agricultural practices in general, and particularly the breeding of fine-wooled sheep.
The fine-wooled Saxonies and Merioes were largely represented; so were coarse-wooled but fine-fleshed Bakewells and Southdowns.
But there is room also for improvement and profit in the breeding of sheep other than the fine-wooled species.
Best Middle-Wooled Ewe, over Two Years Old: Owned by Lewis G.
Best long-wooled buck and ewe over two years old: owned by J.
The Leicesters, Cotswolds, Scotch and Welsh breeds are of the long-wooled kind, while the Merino is the most noted of the other sort.
The long-wooled sheep have the wool straight or slightly curved while the short-wooled kind have it thick and curly.
A male was then obtained of the large coarse-wooled Spanish stock: improvement in the vigor of the progeny was again most obvious.
There is likewise a polled, short-wooled sort of sheep in these parts of the country, which are esteemed by some.
The soft-wooled sheep of Scotland are a breed nearly extinct; they have short horns, lank bodies and short wool.
Then there are the various long-wooled sheep of which the new Leicester breed is considered first in respect to form and ability to fatten readily.
The sheep of his settlement were not only hornless, but small and light-wooled as well, and the splendid, horned ram took his fancy.
Now, by singular chance, it happened that at this particular settlement there was already a sheep-killer harrying the thick-wooled flocks.
Many careful, extensive and protracted attempts have been made to produce a breed combining the fleece of the Merino with the carcass of the Leicester or other long wooled sheep.
By this system many varieties of sheep have been so far improved as to become almost new breeds; as for instance the New Oxford Downs which have frequently gained prizes at the great Agricultural Meetings as being the best long wooled sheep.
Their chief merit is as fine wooled sheep, and as such they excel all others.
These are the Southdown, and the Cotswold, Leicester, or other improved breeds of long-wooled sheep.
The morning was bright and sunshiny, and the sight of a fine snowy-wooled sheep cropping the bright green herbage was not one likely to create alarm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wooled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
