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Show I PRESIDENT SOON TO RETIRE FROM SHEEP BUSINESS WASHINGTON,. July 31. I President Wilson is to retire from the sheep business. The ! White Hous' flock of forty-eight forty-eight prize iheep, which has I kept the !ans cut for three summers is to be sold. The yield of wool has gone to charity, this year to the Salva-v Salva-v tion Army. In 1018 the flock ! ! produced 98 pounds, which was sold by the itcd Cross, bringing ; more than S52.C00. The origin?! flock of eighteen head was obtained from Wil-liam Wil-liam Woodward cf New York who has a farm near Bowie, Maryland, v. here it was said to-1 to-1 cli', George Washington once obtained a herd of doer for the grounds at Mount Vernon. |