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Show Rambouillet Breeds To Be Featured At 1952 State Fair Utah State Fair will take the lead in honoring 50 years of Rambouillet sheep breeding in ' the State with a special show which will feature Utah's world-renowned world-renowned sheep, and the breeders breed-ers who are responsible for their continued fame. This summer it is just 50 years since John H. Seely, Mt. Pleasant, Willard Hansen, Collinston, and Dwight Lincoln, Milford, Ohio, Imported the last of the longest line of French Merinos from the Gilbert Farms in Rambouillet, France, and Leuteivitz, Germany. Seely sent his secretary, Dr. William C. Clos, a graduate of the University of Zurich in agriculture, agri-culture, with Lincoln to France and Germany to purchase famous fam-ous individuals of the Merino breed. The sheep these men brought back have formed the basis for every Rambouillet purebred pure-bred herd now in the United States. The history of Rambouillet breeding in the state and the west will be traced through pictures pic-tures of the famous early rams and ewes, to the present exhibits. exhi-bits. The changes in wool staple and body conformity these sheep have undergone in 50 years will interest everyone, whether or not . he is in the sheep business. Rambounllets are not a breed. The sheep, actually, were French Merinos raised on the French Government farms at Rambouillet, Rambouil-let, France. Count von Homeyer, when he brought his show flock to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, trade-named them "Rancin-er "Rancin-er Rambouillets." And the name Rambouillet has stuck with the Merino sheep in this country since Seely registered his flock in 1899, after purcasing the famous fam-ous Bates flock of Irvin, Ohio, according to Dr. Clos, who died several years ago. |