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Show CLAIMS WORLD'S RECORD FOR LARGEST FLEECE OF WOOL. R. A. Jackson, representative in tno state legislature for Columbia county, Washington, who is called the sheep king of the Tukanon." claims the world's record for the largest single sin-gle llceco of wool, which weigh slxtv-seven slxtv-seven pounds and five ounces. He also has throe clips of an aggregate weight of 142 pounds. Th n clipped from Ramboulllet sheep which swept the boards at the St. Louis exposition ex-position and tho National livestock show at Chicago. It will be part of Columbia county's exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle, Se-attle, where several boxes of fruit grown by j. L. Lumas. president of the ashlngton State iHstorical aseocia- tlon, who. made the highest nldlvidual score with a ten-box entry at the national na-tional apple show in Spokane last December, will also be displayed. The county will also have aeveral iortlcul-tura iortlcul-tura novelties, grown in the Touchet val ey. which have never been 011 exhibition ex-hibition anywhere. |