464 TwDNTv-KiciiTii Annual Report 



Breeding Records, igi6-ij: In the fall of 1916 the cross-bred 

 ewes were bred to the cross-bred bucks Nos. 504 and 549. All pure- 

 bred ewes were mated with registered rams of the same breed. A 

 normal lamb crop was secured and those were inspected carefully 

 and notes taken on July 1, 1917. 



The lambs sired by the cross-bred buck No. 504 and out of 

 cross-bred ewes were of medium size, blocky, uniform and of good 

 quality. About half of the lambs had black faces and legs, while 

 tlie remainder of them Aaried in color from dark brown to mottled or 

 light brown. The wool fr(»m these lambs was short but hno, soft 

 and dense, and not more than lO'/r of them had inferior w^jol. 



About half of the lambs sired by buck No. 549 had light colored 

 faces and not more than 25 ^^ had dark points. Many were ahnost 

 white in color, or light brown, and others mottled. These lambs 

 were long in the legs, bodies and necks. They had droojiing rumps 

 and were light in the leg of mutton. Fully 60*^,- of them were so 

 inferior that they had to be culled out. The wool varied greath- In 

 fineness, density and purity. 



Summing up the qualities of the two rams as shown in tlieir 

 offspring, the lambs from ram No. 549 were longer, narrower and. 

 more rangy than those from ram No. 504. Thev were also less 

 vigorous and had coarser, less dense wool, containing more kemp. 

 The lambs from No. 504 were much more uniform than those from 

 the other ram and there is no doubt that from the standpoint of 

 power to transmit dark points and gO(^d wool he greatly excels the 

 other ram. Some criticism, however, could be made of the small 

 size of the lambs coming from this ram, but the uniformit^' and 

 desirability of his lambs in other respects warrant his use another 

 year. Buck 549 was discarded. 



MARKl'lINi; \\o:)L 



Two lots of wool were marketed to ascertain the dift'ereuce 

 between local and outside ])rices. One lot consisting of 743 pounds 

 of wool was shipped from the vSalt River \'alley Farm and the other 

 lot of 78 pounds from Tucson. These were consigned to commis- 

 sion agents in Boston and Chicago with a request that the w^jol be 

 graded carefully and each grade sold on its merits. The higliest 

 prices obtainable at local ]")oints were 33 cents for the vSalt Ri\-er 

 \'alley wool and 21 cents for the Tucson wool. 



The commission firm at Bostoti secured 44 cents for the Tunis 

 wool, and 62 cents for tlie cross-bred wool. The Chicaijo asfent sold 



