Show LAMB CROP UP HEAD Benefiting from a favorable spring season Utah sheep raisers have havo a n lamb Iamb crop this year estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated at head or head more than in 1935 according to a lamb report released here Thursday by Frank Andrews senior statistician for tor the United States dep department of agriculture Tho The number of breeding ewes on January 1 this year was and on January 1 I 1935 Mr Andrews reported so based on these numbers the lamb crop percentage percentage per per- for 1936 is 74 per cent as against 65 per cent cent In in 1935 This years crop is slightly smaller than the lambs born in 1934 when the crop equaled 72 percent percent per percent cent of the breeding ewes Over the nation lamb iamb production this year is li estimated at head which is about head more than the 1935 crop and only head or less than 1 per cent smaller than the record crop of 1931 Tho The increase over last year yeat was all allIn allin in the western sheep states since the native lamb crop of the cast east was wasa a little smaller than last year Th Tho drouth of 1934 was partially responsible for fot the low percent percentage e elamb lamb crop of 1935 Death losses of breeding ewes inthe Inthe in inthe the west during the tho first half of this year were somewhat smaller than during the first six months of 1935 it was reported |