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Show U. S. Sheep Experiment Station DUBOIS, IDAHO - The , , . annual auction sale of breeding breed-ing sheep of the United States ' Sheep Experiment Station, in cooperation with the University Univer-sity of Idaho, will be held on Thursday, September 20, at the experiment station headquarters about six miles north of Dubois, Idaho. THERE WILL be offered for sale, approximately 340 stud and range rams, 400 yearling and mature ewes, and 540 ewe lambs from the Polypay, Targhee, Ram-bouillet Ram-bouillet and Columbia breeds, including a few whitefaced Finnsheep crossbreds. Also this year the Station, in promoting the Blue Pint for Expansion of the sheep industry, in-dustry, is offering for the ; third time an additional 300 select crossbred ewe lambs ' containing (4 Suffolk and Vt ' or i8 Finn breeding, plus Vt or 38 Targhee, Rambouillet, or Columbia breeding. A high percentage of these ewe lambs should breed by late October or November and produce excellent spring lambs. SALE LISTS, which include the individual records of the' rams being offered, will be sent about September 1 to all persons on the sheep station 1 mailing list. Others interested interest-ed may obtain sale lists by contacting the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station, Dubois, Ida. 83423, telephone 374-5306 or 374-5307 (area code 208). The sale is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on the morning morn-ing of Sept. 20. Lunch may be obtained at noon on the Station Sta-tion premises. |