Show FARM FAR FAI CK CI PRODUCTION OF AVERAGE SHEEP Wise Culling and Attention Bring Returns to Owner Prepared bj tho Unite State Statu Department of Agriculture now How culling and wise attention to breedIng of farm form animals may be bo ex expected to produce returns for farmers farmere Is reflected In statistics gal gathered hered by br bythe bythe the bureau of animal Industry and anel pub pub published In the tho current Yearbook of the United States Department of Agri In 1840 WO says E C W Sheets In charge ot of animal husbandry In Investigations the average o weight of fleece neece sheared from American sheep was less than two pounds Bv nv 1900 1100 It had In Increased creased to nearly c and one one halt pounds Today It Is eight In other words an nn a average sheep today grows wool wrol enough eno each year rear to make approximately one suIt ot of clothes In 18 10 It U took the wool of four tour sheep to make a suit of equal wel weight and quality Better breeding and more rigid cull culling tag log of breeding locks flocks promise premise to raise thIs average a still further Wool pro production Is similar to such Nuch qualities as hen heavy milk production In dairy cattle heavy e egg production of ot hens bens Till Th offspring of ot heavy ben producers are likely be to- to tobe to-be be heavy y producers and to transmit to their offspring the capacity tor for hen heavy production In the case of ot she sheep p Sir Mr lr Sheets says There Is still room for tor Im Improvement provement Ily By y weeding out the lie poor producers and breeding from the time ha heavily heavily ily lIy fleeced sheep shee-p flock dock owners can raIse the average |