. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE AMERICAN MERINO SOI often weigh 150 pounds or more, and many excellent ewes weigh less than 100 pounds. Among the great rams of a half century ago were many that weighed no to 120 pounds. The weights of some of the early noted rams are as follows : Wooster*, 100 pounds; Old Greasy*, no; Old Wrinkley*, 130; Gold Drop*, 140; California*, 140; Eureka, 150; Sweepstakes*, 150; Cen- tennial, 165 ; Bismark, 170. Those given a star (*) were used in. Fig. 223. Prince Charlie, a Merino ram bred by the estate of the late F. E. Body, Bundemar, Trangie, Ne
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE AMERICAN MERINO SOI often weigh 150 pounds or more, and many excellent ewes weigh less than 100 pounds. Among the great rams of a half century ago were many that weighed no to 120 pounds. The weights of some of the early noted rams are as follows : Wooster*, 100 pounds; Old Greasy*, no; Old Wrinkley*, 130; Gold Drop*, 140; California*, 140; Eureka, 150; Sweepstakes*, 150; Cen- tennial, 165 ; Bismark, 170. Those given a star (*) were used in. Fig. 223. Prince Charlie, a Merino ram bred by the estate of the late F. E. Body, Bundemar, Trangie, New South Wales, and sold in June, 1918 for $15,120, the highest price on record paid for a sheep. This is the present-day popular type in Australia, though perhaps close to the C type. From photograph, by courtesy of W. T. Ritch, Australian wool expert the flock of Edwin Hammond. Of the present-day A type sheep but few rams exceed 160 pounds and few ewes 130 pounds, and then with a full-year weight of fleece. The American Merino as a wool producer is famous. No class of sheep shears so strong, fine, and heavy a fleece. Many mature females shear from 12 to 15 pounds, and rams easily attain 20 pounds. The Vermont Merino Register gives thirty-six rams, three years old or over, whose fleeces averaged 31 pounds i ounce each, one weighing sy^'im^^yfmf^. A two-year-old ram, at. 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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