Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-15 | Page 13 | Russ May Buy at Utah Show

RUSS MAY BUYAT BUY BUYAT BUYAT AT UTAH SHOW Sheep Commission Likely to fo Visit Salt Lake Ring SALT SALT LAKE Aug Aur UBy K By The Associated It Peu-It Press It I Is Indicated by office oCtlee Information received at the of- of of fice of oC the National Woo Wool Growers association that the sheep commis commission Mon lion the Russian IOV ov let let ov-let government is likely to 10 com corn commence mence commence Its western sheep buy buy- Ing inc buyIng program at the th eleventh I an-I an- an annual nual national ram r m salo lalo at Salt Lake Lale August 21 to September Sept 1 The Russian government purchased cx- cx ex cx extensively throughout the th range ranee states last lait year ear particularly from the tho flocks nocks of central and nd southern Utah These Thes sheep were wore shipped to 10 Russia for tor use as i foundation animals In Ing Iny the depleted depicted sheep flocks locks of that nation The association does docs not have definite de information on the tho pro pro- program program tram pro gram of the th Russian buyers buyer but It has been reported from several everal sources that they thoy were planning to continue their sheep purchasing activities this year Following the ram sale they are aro likely to visit the leading sheep breeding regions of the west as they did last year Recently the Japanese govern 17 head of of Utah Tho The sheep were purchased In tho Mount Pleasant district of central Utah and nd the purchaser K ic who l-a l superintendent of the Japanese government sheep farm cx- cx ex explained It would be bs tho the last pur pur- chase purchase pur to be bo made in American sheep regions this year In 1923 the Japanese took large larce numbers of foundation Utah sheep to Japan for foun Coun- toun- toun 1931 dation stock tock ft