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Show Heavy Ram Contest. We doubt It there lias even, been n prlre offered for a sheep th it tins created creat-ed such widespread Interest In nil sheep breeding countries as the JI0O offer made by the international Stock Tuod company for the heaviest lam III the world The announcement was made early Inst winter nnd leidlng breeders In Kngl-ind Cannda and the United States commenced to prepare rnuis for the contest Ilenrj Duddlng. the great llngllsh Lincoln bleeder, who has midu the worlds record for selling two Lincoln Lin-coln tarns nt $8000 each and S 13 Dean & Sons, the celebrated Donsby Hall breedeis. both fed rums for this prlio Tiank Hauling brought over the Dili ding ram and he tipped the beam at tot pcurds In quarantine but died on the second day after his arrival 8 K Dean S. Sons shipped n Doivsb Hall ram weighing 480 founds prior to shipment at Liverpool This ram reached ejuebce In good shape, but died a few clnjs later la-ter l'ark S. Son, the Canadian Crtts-wold Crtts-wold breeders, were ready vvlthn Cots-wolJ Cots-wolJ rum weighing 460 pounds, but thought they wcie beaten and did not enter him Patrick llros fed a Duddlng Dud-dlng bred Lincoln ram. that weighed 413 pounds November Wth the day set for the taking of welrhts John Olbson. the Canadian Lincoln lucedir, sent weight of a 407 pound ram and George McKcrrow. the well-known Oxford Down Importer nnd breeder, mnde alll-davit alll-davit to the weight of a 406-pound Oxford Ox-ford mm, S P llnncock of Williams, la, sent "proof of n Cotswold ram that cleared the beam at 330 iHiunds, and Hans Abeld of Wauconda, S D , furnished fur-nished nllldavlt for a ram weighing 30) pounds, but did not stnte the breed Ao-rordlng Ao-rordlng to the rules of the contest, Pat-tick Pat-tick llros received the check for J100, nnd their rani was shipped to the great ntnrk farm of the international Stock rood company at Hamilton, Minn Without doubt the Lincoln ram sent over b Messrs Denn . Sons would have weighed HOO pounds and over, but tho loner, hard voynro proved too much for him Tho International Stock Tood company own the lnrt.eBt horse, cow nnd hog In the world Mr Suvngo recently re-cently purchased the world's greatest pacer, Dan Pntch pajlng 100 000 for him American Sheep llreeder. |