world-defying competition. The heaviest auth- 

 enticated year's growth of wool, by seven and 

 one-half pounds, ever shorn was taken from a 

 four-year-old Kansas Merino ram, weighing, 

 without artificial weighting, 52 pounds. It also 

 seems to be a fact that the heaviest eight fleeces, 

 aggregating 301! pounds, ever sheared from a 



Cresceus — Of /(ansas Parentage. 



sheep in eight consecutive years, were produced 

 by a Kansas ram, making a yearly average of 

 37.7 pounds ; a ewe in this same flock sheared 

 an aggregate of 1543 pounds of wool in six 

 fleeces, which is believed to be the heaviest yield 

 ever obtained from a ewe in six consecutive 



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