| Show rambouillet GIVE HEAVIEST FLEECES irre prepared pared by the united states department of agriculture wool gro growers weris are accustomed to think that yearlings yearnings year lings shear the heaviest fleeces of any age group it recent becent tests made by D A spencer in charge of the sheep and wool investigations united states department of agriculture do not bear out this popular belief averaging the weight of fleeces of 1480 1486 Kain Rata bouillet sheep ranging in age from one to seven years old he found that the three year old ewes sheared the heaviest fleeces of clean wool wooi produced by any group their average being 13 per cent greater than the average for tile entire group the fleeces from ewes seven yeam old or older averaged 15 per cent below the average and were the tightest lightest fleeces produced by any age group the yearling yearnings year lings gs fleeces were nearly 8 per cent below the average and with the exception of the seven year old group they were the lightest in spite of the fact that they had grown for bout about thirteen or fourteen months white while all tile the fleeces from ewes older than yearlings yearnings year lings had grown exactly one year on the whole the data show that the trend Is up from yearlings yearnings year lings to three year olds and down from three year olds to seven year olds the fleeces fleece were grown under practical range con dillons at the lie stilted states sheep ex pediment perl peri ment station dubols dubois idalio idaho |
