Karakul Sheep. 



Use of Ceoss-beed Rams. 



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" This practice is not lecommended at all except for the produc- 

 tion of sheep to be slaughtered for mutton, when seven-eighths and 

 liigher grade rams can he used to advantage on Africander and 

 Xamaqua ewes. 



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" As experiment, still under observation, has revealed the fact 

 that cross-bred rams on foundation ewes give very poor lesults, rams 

 respectively three-quarters, seven-eighths, and fifteen-sixteenths 

 karakul are being used, but for the present nothing definite can be 



