Author: Alfred Seymour Jones

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-05

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9781333847470

Excerpt from The Sheep and Its Skin: A Text-Book of the History, Breeds, Feeding, Diseases, and Afflictions of the Sheep; And of the Pelt and Wool Conservation, Fellmongering and Wet-Work Treatment of the Pelt Prior to Tanning No work dealing with the skin of the sheep would be complete without some historical references. The chapter giving a historical account of the evolution of the sheep is not complete, but sufficient to show that the progenitors of the modern breeds have a more remote antiquity than is generally known, that as an item in the economy of man's life the sheep has played an all-important part practically from the advent of man some millions of years ago, and that the modern breeds have arrived at their present condition by the natural process of evolution. Prior to the dawn of history, the unique position of the British Isles lent itself to the specialising in breeds of sheep, a position which time has not effaced but improved, with the result 'that the world draws upon these islands for sheep whose purity of breed is guaranteed, and from which the oversea breeds may be strengthened or improved. The leather industry takes rank among the first six great industries of the world. In this industry, the sheep skin, as it falls from the carcase, yields a largerwas? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.