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Region 6, Wyomings or Colorados. This region shows 

 the greatest variety of breeding. The borders are inclined 

 to resemble the adjoining territories. Fine-wooled, Down, 

 and coarse-wooled rams have been used, but no inbreeding. 

 A great many of these sheep are fed in Colorado. Lambs 

 weigh from sixty to eighty pounds, have a medium pelt 

 and bone, a white to dark face, and reach the market from 

 August to September. 



Region 7, Mexicans or Arizonas. This class of sheep 

 shows the least improvement of all in breeding. In many 

 cases they are badly inbred, and when new blood has been 

 introduced it has generally been by fine- or coarse-wooled 

 rams. They have a fine bone, light pelt, white face, coarse 

 hairy wool, and are marketed from August to September, 

 many going to the Colorado feeders. These sheep are among 

 the best killers that reach the market, and when thin are very 

 popular with the feeders, and when fat, with the butchers. 



WESTERN LAMBS 



Western lambs most numerous of all feeders. Western 

 lambs form from seventy to eighty per cent of the trade in 

 Western sheep. They reach the stockyards from the range at 

 from four to eight months of age and weigh from forty -five to 

 eighty pounds. It is the common practice for the packers to 

 take the tops, or the fattest ones, out of almost every bunch 

 that reaches the markets, and those that are left go to the 

 feeders. This does not mean, necessarily, that the feeder 

 gets the culls, but rather those that do not carry the re- 

 quired amount of fat for the killers. The Western grass 

 lambs are quite well liked by the butchers, for when they 

 reach the market they are, in most cases, well shrunk out 

 and dress a high per cent. Western lambs are, in some 



