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Show TO P-, DUC: ilSTINCT BREEU IF AMERICAN SHEEP A progressive step in the development develop-ment of the woolrowing industry of the west is indicated in a letter recently received at the Ogden forestry headquarters, head-quarters, announcing a plan for the development de-velopment by the United States department depart-ment of agriculture, of a distinctly American breed of sheep. This work was begun on a small scale some time ago in Wyoming, but it is now the desire of the department to engage in the experiment on a much larger scale. With the end in view of finding a suitable location, L. L. Heller, of the bureau of animal husbandry, will visit the Ogden forestry headquarters headquar-ters in the near future to asc.rtain whether o.- not favorable ranges are available in Utah,. Nevada, or Southern Idaho, upon which the work may be 1 conducted. According to th for.-!, i..k-;l conditions con-ditions m iy be o.i:i.l j t pr.tclic.ilK any part of the fourth forestry district, and an effort will be made to have the experiment ex-periment conducted in this locality. An especially favorable situation is believed ' to exist on the Teton range of moun- j tains in southeastern Idaho, where it ; has been asserted by men of authority the best grade of wool in the west is produced. These ranges are in the Palisade and Targhee national forests. The expeii nent proposed is a'ong the same general lines as those in England, Scotland and France, where most all of the different distinctive types of sheep known to the American woolgrower have been developed. The work of the department of agriculture i: carried out in the west as planned, will no doubt result in the production of a combined com-bined wool and mutton producing animal especially adapted to the needs and requirements re-quirements of the woolgrt. wing in iustry. as conducted in the western range states. I - |