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Wool Characteristics as an Indication of Nutritive Attributes in Herbage Varieties

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CERTAIN dietary constituents can influence both the quantity and quality of wool in sheep1–3. There is considerable variation between grasses in both organic and inorganic constituents4,5, but few comparisons have been made of the wool produced by sheep offered different grasses6 and we know of no previous work relating the quality of wool to a particular grass species or variety constituting the feed.

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    B. D. PATIL, D. I. H. JONES & ROY HUGHES

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PATIL, B., JONES, D. & HUGHES, R. Wool Characteristics as an Indication of Nutritive Attributes in Herbage Varieties. Nature 223, 1072–1073 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231072a0

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