Show NEW TYPE SHEEP FOR SMALL FLOCK OWNERS small farm operators who depend upon a small hock flock of sheep as source of cash income need a sheep that produces a good of wool as well crop as lambs of graor fiord I 1 market quality to supply this need federal sheep specialists at the middlebury vermont station of the bureau 13 11 of animal industry have developed the southdale South dalo a cross between the southdown and corti conic dale the southdown is noted for its mutton quality but produces a lightweight light weight short sh ort staple fleece the wool however ho wever is high ir 1 quality the while not so high in mutton quality produces a heavy long staple fleece of high quality in the or South dales the federal scientists report the wool yield excels that of the southdowns South downs and mutton quality that of the Corrie dales the south dale does not equal the southdown in mutton quality or the in wool production but selective breeding tor for eight years in which rams were chosen carefully for wool and mutton production has steadily improved these new dual purpose sheep 0 |