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As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I have never raised sheep, but am prejudiced as I have eaten the meat. I want a huge carcase and it matters not to me if I get a pile of wool or not.
I really believe that when a George Washington cottage America reappears according to prophecy, that sheep, small milk cows like Jersey or Highlander, will along with goats become a primary food source, as well as the large European rabbits.
In that I share three quotes which I found interesting in Norwegian sheep apparently would eat meat when starving.
George Washington was a spectacular planter farmer of invention, where Jefferson gets credit for contraptions, Washington actually produced products which improved the state of the American farmer.
He bred huge white jacks for mules, and recorded here, he also produced his new variety of sheep called the Arlington.
Lastly, we have sheep hams. Like Italian hams, I think that sheep, deer and other creatures should make ham, and not just pork.
I do not believe in salt peter, and in that, a good smoke of anything will benefit any meat. I believe I would like to make sheep ham......have made deer bacon and it was something that did not make one cringe, so there you go.
"In some parts of Norway and Sweden, when other resources fail, he subsists on fish or flesh during the long, rigorous winter, and, if reduced to necessity, even devours his own wool."
Robert Jennings. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry
"An excellent variety, called the Arlington sheep, was produced by General Washington , from a cross of a Persian ram upon the Bakewell, which bore wool fourteen inches in length, soft, silky, and admirably suited to combing. These, likewise, have long since become incorporated with the other flocks of the country."
Robert Jennings. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry
"Good ham may be made of any part of a carcass of mutton, though the leg is preferable; and for this purpose it is cut in the English fashion. It should be rubbed all over with good salt, and a little saltpetre , for ten minutes, and then laid in a dish and covered with a cloth for eight or ten days. After that, it should be slightly rubbed again, for about five minutes, and then hung up in a dry place, say the roof of the kitchen, until used. Wether mutton is used for hams, because it is fat, and it may be cured any time from November to May; but ram-mutton makes the largest and highest-flavored ham, provided it be cured in spring, because it is out of season on autumn."
Robert Jennings. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry
So your sheep education is not done yet, as Final Jeopardy knowledge always includes the macabre and things which silence people in not having much of a clue as to what you are whale oil talking about.
The finer quality of the substance (parchment), called vellum, is made of the skins of kids and dead-born lambs; and for its manufacture the town of Strasburgh has long been celebrated.
Robert Jennings. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry
Mutton-suet is used in the manufacture of common candles, with a proportion of ox-tallow. Minced suet, subjected to the action of high-pressure steam in a digester , at two hundred and fifty or two hundred and sixty degrees of Fahrenheit, becomes so hard as to be sonorous when struck, whiter, and capable, when made into candles, of giving very superior light. Stearic candles, the invention of the celebrated Guy Lussac, are manufactured solely from mutton-suet.
Robert Jennings. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry
Bakewell
Yes something you did not know in dead baby lamb skin makes the best quality of parchment and when you pressure render sheep suet, it is of the stearic acid group of being a superior illumination as a higher burn rate in being more volatile.
"Say there, your candles look a bit dull there Pater Pope, I hear the Lutherans use mutton candles and are much brighter lights.......and about your parchment there Pater, when I was in Strasburgh the Germans had a much better quality made from........."
I do have a big ass pressure cooker I got off Ebay.....like ten gallons, maybe is something I might indulge in.
Oh one more thing, the Pater might come back with, "I say there, you might have better candles and Bibles, but our little Italian sheeps of 1840 in their outer layer of intestinal membrane, makes a superior stringed instrument string, you might know as catgut. It is due to British and American sheeps being larger and we just have wee little sheep in Italy."
"That was two centuries ago you gaucho! How about them sheep today you Spitalian?"
That has never been explored or indulged in, is an Italian born in Spanish Argentina, a Spitalian or a Itanish?
When you crossbreed sheep, you just get sheep.
I think sheep would be quite sinister gnawing on Muchelle Obama's big butt in Norway. Probably could feed a flock and have a years oil supply to light the hacienda too.
One more thing, you take a sheep's heartbeat in the femoral artery, like in people, and their heart rate is 65 to 75 beats per minute like humans.
Tunis
nuff said
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