Show SHEEP MINUS MINi TAilS COllEGE I PROD Cr Siberians Crossed Crosse With Etc Bring Dring New ew Type BROOKI GS s S D Jan 25 25 By The Pren Nino years experimental work In the de- de de development nt of a tailless breed breed of sheep under the th direction of ot Pro Pro- Protessor Pro Professor fessor James V W Wilson lIson director ot of the South Dakota experiment station at Stat Stats College Collece Is beginning to show results re Lambs have been een horn born In Ibo bo State College flock with tails so short that I they he So- So do donot not have ha to be b docked The They rhey have hv been devel developed from crossing native Siberian rams with ewes ewe of ot the Hampshire and breed breeds After everal several year yeats ealS work In rus fu inc Ing these breeds a II rem ram lamb was we born which had neither the marked characteristics of or the Siberian breed nor any evidence of or a tall tail Eighteen out of ot twenty one of ot this rams ram's offspring have hav been horn born with tIIs so short that they needed no docking Among Amons the he objects of ot present e ex experiments C Is that of ot determining whether the strain of sheep born boru thus Is In the tho ho tailed short out of ot this phase all of ot the short tailed breeds are being belne used par par- particularly tailed short In the crossing of ot short short- tailed rams with Ith western bred owes ewes |