Abstract
PROF. BARKER, at the request of the Peruvian Government, went to Peru in 1926 to study the development of Peruvian flocks and of Peru as a wool-growing country. The present illustrated volume is the report of that visit, with a number of valuable appendices on different aspects of wool. The wool production of the Peruvian tablelands in the high Andes is steadily growing and the number of sheep has doubled in five years. Peruvian wool has many good qualities, and it loses little in scouring because of the cleanliness of the pastures, but the fleece is very light compared with Chilean, Argentine, arid Australian fleeces. Prof. Barker discusses the cross - breeding and selection necessary for increase in the weight of the fleeces, and incidentally he points out that the problems involved in these researches make them a valuable field of study in genetics that should appeal to every university. The report is beautifully illustrated, with some of the plates in colour.
The Prospective Development of Peru as a Sheep-breeding and Wool-growing country.
Prof.
Alfred F.
Barker
By. Pp. xii + 174 + 8 plates. (Leeds: The Author, The University, 1927.) n.p.
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The Prospective Development of Peru as a Sheep-breeding and Wool-growing country . Nature 120, 913 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120913c0
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