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Show i Breeding Sheep Sale Maintains High Average Prices A total of $7,054.70 was paid for breeding sheep at the annual Southern Utah Livestock Show last week end, with good averages' aver-ages' recorded in all four breeds, Rambobuillet, Columbia, Suffolk, and Hampshire, that went into the ring on the second day of the three-day show. Black face stock ran ahead of the other in the auction with an average of $66.66, with Hamp-shires Hamp-shires bringing an average of $63.39 and the Rambouillets and Columbias bringing an average of $59.13. However, the top price paid for a single ram in the sale was taken by Dr. John Beal for his grand champion RambouiUct. Roy Lundgren paid $205 for the Beal ram to top the show. The second highest price, $200, was paid for the College of Southern Utah grand champion Sutfolk ram. Beal Farms also toped the sale in the pen division. Arch Spils-bury, Spils-bury, Toquerville, paid $85 for Beal's pen of range Columbias and, Glade Berry, Kanarraville, paid $75 for a pen of range Rambouillets exhibited by Beal. Judging of the breeding sheep placed Beal's RambouilM and Columbia rams ' as the grand champions in those two divisions. The grand champion Hampshire was exhibited by Therald Lar-sen, Lar-sen, Ephraim, while CSU ex-hibited ex-hibited the grand champion Suffolk. Suf-folk. Reserve champions were listed as follows: Rambouillet, CSU; Columbia, ThorJey Bros.; Hampshire, Hamp-shire, Vance Mortensen, Ephraim and Suffolk, Dick Cox. Dick Cox exhibited the grand champion Columbia ewe and Rulon Wood the reserve champion. champ-ion. CSU had the grand champion champ-ion Hampshire ewe, and Therald Larsen the reserve champion. CSU also exhibited the grand champion champ-ion Suffolk ewe, with George Foster winnig reserve championship champ-ionship honors in the division. |