SKIN FROM FIRST GENERATION CROSS— KARAKUL RAM BY LIN COLN EWE 



Experiments in crossing Karakul rams on long-wool and Cheviot ewes have brought some 

 interesting results in color and fur bearing factors. The Karakul skin is characterized by dense, 

 lustrous ringlets of fur, the density and luster becoming less as the animal grows older. The 

 skin shown in the photograph is from a first generation crossbred between a homozygous Karakul 

 ramand a registered Lincoln ewe. It shows the dominance of black color, and also proved that 

 the other characters of curl, density, and luster were dominant to straight, long, dull wool. (Fig. 

 14.) 



