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16 international exhibition; 1876. This Republic, with a climate where the cold of winter is so mod erate as to exhibit no more severe effects than slight hoar-frosts which disappear with the morning’s sun, with an extensive seaboard, an internal and arterial system of rivers counted among the finest in the world, and with a soil furnished by a rich and vast alluvial plain on a subsoil of silicious clay, would seem to have a capacity for an unlimited wool-production of Merino wool. It would be well if the same could be said of another branch of wool, the product of the same country,—that proceeding from the indigenous races, or rather the descendants of the coarse Spanish sheep introduced by the con querors in the middle of the sixteenth century. These wools, pro ceeding from Churros sheep of Spain which have not been crossed with the Merinos, proceed from flocks found in the Sierra of Cordova, at an altitude of from three thousand to five thousand feet, also from other provinces of the Argentine Republic, as shown at the Exhi bition, each known by the name of the province. The wool, long, though coarse, and produced in small fleeces, is in great demand in the United States for the manufacture of carpets. A plateau plain in the province of Cordova, of eight hundred superficial leagues in ex tent, at an elevation of above ten thousand feet, produces sheep of this race which bear much larger fleeces of long carpet-wools. Some of the pelts were shown at the Exhibition. The tendency is for these wools to constantly increase relatively in value, as they are grown only by the rudest people, who are rather diminishing than increasing in numbers. The question of the future supply of these wools is, therefore, one of serious consideration with carpet-manufacturers. Three specimens of fleeces, styled “ Lana de Lina,” were also shown. These are the wools of the cross of the sheep and the goat. They resemble in appearance the wools of the sheep of the several provinces where they were grown, but are more wiry and slippery. Dr. Oldendorff, who is a man of thorough scientific and practical information upon all subjects connected with agriculture, and who has resided in Buenos Ayres for twenty years, being now the head of the agricultural department of the Argentine Republic, says that they are the offspring of the male goat and the ewe, never of the ram and the female goat, and are invariably sterile. The skins, dressed, are called pelloncs, and are used by the natives to cover their saddles. In traveling over the mountains, frequently eight or nine are put upon the saddle, on top of which the driver sits. They serve for his bed and covering as he bivouacs at night.