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Reclaiming Old-Style Merinos:
A New Wrinkle At Firestone Farm Living History Museum
By Alan Harman
Sheep breeders at the Firestone Farm in Michigan are seeing their future by looking into the past.
What they want to do is return their small flock of Merino sheep back more than a century to the way they were when the breed ruled American sheep farms with their tightly wrinkled wool.
The wrinkled sheep provided wool from the equivalent of...