Show production OF AVERAGE SHEEP wise tire gulling culling and attention bring returns to owner prepared by the united states department of Acri agriculture culture how culling and wise attention to breeding of farm animals may be expected to produce returns for farmers Is reflected in statistics gathered by the bureau of animal industry and published in the current yearbook of the united states department of aarl culture tul ture in 1810 11 says 0 W sheets in charge 01 0 animal husbandry investigations gat ions tho the average weight of fleece sheared tl from american sheep was less than two pounds rv by 1000 it had find increased tp to nearly fire and one halt half pounds today it Is approaching eight pounds in other words an average sheep today grows acol enough each year rear to make approximately one suit of clothes in 1810 it took the wool of f four sheep to make a suit of equal weight and quality netter better breeding and more rigid culling of breeding locks flocks promise to raise aids average still further wool production Is similar to nuch qualities a as beavy milk production in dairy cattle and heavy egg production of liens hens the heavy producers to ta be heavy producers aej to transmit to their offspring the tha capacity for beavy production tn in the case of sheep mr air sheets bays ays there Is still room for tin provement pro dy by weeding out the poor producers and breeding from the heavily fleeced sheep flock owners can raise the average |