. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 644 SHEEP $42,000, or brought an average of over $750. In 1909 one ram brought about $3000. Owing to the death of Mr. Dudding the Riby Grove fiock was dispersed in 1913, on which occasion the ram Riby Bristol Champion brought $3000 and 139 yearhng rams averaged about ;^233 each. In 1918, at the Lincoln ram sales, A. W. Dean of Dowsby Hall, Bourne, purchased 11 stud rams at an average price of $800 each for service in his own flock. How- ever, he later sold these to go to Buenos Aires for the record price of Si6?o each, one of these rams bringing $
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 644 SHEEP $42,000, or brought an average of over $750. In 1909 one ram brought about $3000. Owing to the death of Mr. Dudding the Riby Grove fiock was dispersed in 1913, on which occasion the ram Riby Bristol Champion brought $3000 and 139 yearhng rams averaged about ;^233 each. In 1918, at the Lincoln ram sales, A. W. Dean of Dowsby Hall, Bourne, purchased 11 stud rams at an average price of $800 each for service in his own flock. How- ever, he later sold these to go to Buenos Aires for the record price of Si6?o each, one of these rams bringing $6250. The highest prices paid in the United States for Lincolns, up to 1918, occurred in 1917 at the Salt Lake City sale, when an imported ram soldfor$ gett of Colorado. One ram was also sold for $550 to the Butterfield Live Stock Company of Idaho, and an- other for $550 to Austin Brothers of Utah. Twenty- one rams consigned by Anoka Farms of Wiscon- sin averaged $ The distribution of the Lincoln sheep is very wide- spread. In Britain it is largely limited to Lincolnshire and adjoining east counties in England, but it has been extensively imported to the British colonies and to South America and Canada. Herbert Gibson states that in 1862 one Lincoln ram was shipped to his father, Thomas Gibson, on the Yngleses estancia in Argentina; in 1863 a large number were imported, followed by two lots in 1864 and successive importations each year after. A very large per cent of the 67,000,000 sheep in Argentina about 1910 are said to have been pure Lincolns or crosses of this breed. From October i, 1912, to September 30, 1913, there were exported from England 2400 rams and ewes as follows: 1728 rams and 468 ewes to. Fig. 304. A Lincoln ewe lamb of very superior character at the 1904 show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Her fleece swept the ground. From photograph by H. B. Arbuckle, by courtesy of the A^ational Stockman and Farmer Digitized by Microsoft®
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