A History of Agriculture in India v1.c16.38

v1.c16.38

'It thus appears that the domestication of the sheep, apart from ensuring a permanent meat supply, also improved greatly the supply of raw materials, of skins, hair, fat and bones. All these became, in due course, available from other sources, namely other domesticated ruminants. But the production of wool has almost entirely remained a monopoly of the sheep'.⁵