. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 528 SHEEP Rambouillet. O. M. Smithson of Illinois states that he has field ewes shearing up to 23 pounds and rams up to 28 to 30 pounds. The two-year-old ram Majestic 71350, bred by F. S. King of Wyoming, is credited with producing a 40-pound fleece in one year. In 1916 the Oklahoma Agricultural College reported shearing from the two-year-old ram Laramie a fleece weighing. Fig. 237. Butterfield's Model, a Rambouillet ram that sold in the 1918 Salt Lake City ram sale for I3000. He was sold by the Butterfield Live-Stock Company of Idaho to Bullard B
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 528 SHEEP Rambouillet. O. M. Smithson of Illinois states that he has field ewes shearing up to 23 pounds and rams up to 28 to 30 pounds. The two-year-old ram Majestic 71350, bred by F. S. King of Wyoming, is credited with producing a 40-pound fleece in one year. In 1916 the Oklahoma Agricultural College reported shearing from the two-year-old ram Laramie a fleece weighing. Fig. 237. Butterfield's Model, a Rambouillet ram that sold in the 1918 Salt Lake City ram sale for I3000. He was sold by the Butterfield Live-Stock Company of Idaho to Bullard Brothers of California. This is a C type Rambouillet. From photograph, by courtesy of the American Sheep Breeder 46^ pounds with an average length of staple of 3^ inches. Professor Coffey states ^ that a twelve months' fleece of mature rams should weigh from 15 to 25 pounds and ewes from 10 to 18 pounds, but these latter figures very naturally apply to carefully bred and selected flocks. Crossbred or grade Rambouillet sheep are best known on the Western range, where for some years large numbers of pure-bred rams have been shipped from the Middle West for use on native 1 Productive Sheep Husbandry, 1918. Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston, New York, Ginn
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