"You need to look at the legs and examine the jaws, and you need to see if the lines on the head are straight," Meng Yu was saying, admiring the animals before him like any connoisseur of fine breeds.
But Bessie is "of a finer breed"; her "precocious intelligence" propels her all the way to Cambridge on a scholarship.
Not only did the Nez Perce basically save the Virginia Men, as they were sometimes called, from starving, but they impressed them with what may be the finest breed of horse in the West -- the appaloosa.
Breeds traditionally used for carpet wool show great variability, but the chief requirement is a wool that will not break down under heavy use (as would that of the finer breeds).
The original fine-wool breed was the Merino, developed in Spain from stock native to that country before the Christian era.
Fine wool breeds are those that have wool of great crimp and density, which are preferred for textiles.
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In China, several fine-wool breeds were produced by crossing Mongolian and Tibetan ewes with Soviet Merino and Rambouillet rams [ 10] (Fig. 1c).
