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Wool

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Thomas Vale from Lord Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 13 December 1924

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/30/9
Scope and Contents

Wood writes from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to acknowledge Vale's letter regarding the improvement of British wool.

Dates: 13 December 1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1924

Merino - Wollschafrassen, 1961

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/115
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1958 - 1961. Volume 2 of 19.

Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Modern problems in the improvement of wool production, 1956

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/10
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1947-1957. Volume 1 of 19.

Dates: 1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille, 28 October 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/101
Scope and Contents Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille [St John's Wort/St Columba's Plant] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how it is [collected] 'gun sire[adh] gun iar[raidh]' and 'is scraped ag[ainst] its bark and a crosgag (a ring) is made and placed in the bottom of the milk [boyne].' The note also describes the 'cneapag' which is made before the crosgag is made. Calum Cille [St Columba] is described as 'the best herd...
Dates: 28 October 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes and vocabulary notes about sheep in the St Kilda archipelago, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/173
Scope and Contents

Notes about sheep and wool in the St Kilda archipelago that the sheep are not fleeced but pulled, that the wool on 'sheep in Bor[eraigh]' [Borerary] is one and a half [inches] long and that there is a 'well in top of Lei - no grass' [Stac Lee]. The vocabulary notes read '"Ruagadh" = catching sheep'; 'Giaraiste = ab[ou]t 9 fath[oms] of rope which S[aint] K[ildans] carry like a non-com[mi]s[sioned] off[ice]rs shash [sash]' and 'Rusgadh = Signalling'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes in an unknown hand concerning the Blackface-Southdown cross of sheep, 30 November 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/28
Scope and Contents The notes record that there is now a small healthy flock of Blackface-Southdown sheep crosses. The first generation has already given straightforward results and the saleable value of the fleeces and carcases have been judged favourably. It is likely that this experiment will be extended by the purchase of more Blackface ewes and a new Southdown ram, although a reciprocal crossing with Southdown ewes should ideally be carried out on a Sussex farm where the ewes would be in their natural...
Dates: 30 November 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Number of Sheep in Various Countries, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3359
Scope and Contents

Table of information on the number of sheep in various countries in various years between 1890 and 1907 showing that Australia holds the foremost position in size of flock and quantity and quality of wool produced.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

On the grading of British wool, September 1969

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/313
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1969 - 1970. Volume 6 of 19.

Dates: September 1969
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

On the Road - Australia: The Sheep Country, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/647
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three wagons piled high with packed bales of wool drawn by teams of horses along a road in Australia in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Papers of Michael L. Ryder

 Fonds
Identifier:  Coll-1702
Scope and Contents Papers are sorted in box files by subject, on the following topics:- Ryder's book 'Sheep and Man', including original illustrations and correspondence (15 box files); textiles and weaving (3 box files); - Sheep and wool in the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East (3 box files); - Skin biology, wool and other animal hair, wool colour (7 box files); - St Kilda, Orkney and Shetland sheep (2 box files); - Archaeological textiles, clothing, rugs and...
Dates: c.1950s-2000s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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