in length, density and quality as compared with the Shropshire. The 

 average ewe shears 6 to 9 pounds and the ram 9 to 12. 



The Hampshire is now one of our most desirable farms breeds. It 

 has popular size and in prolificacy compares well with the Shropshire. 

 The ewes are good mothers excelling the Shropshire. The lambs make 



Hampshire ewe, Overbrook Honey Girl, owned by Overbrook Farms, Jerome, 

 Ida. This ewe was champion of her breed at the Intermountain Fair, 

 Boise, Idaho, 1911. 



more rapid gains than some of the smaller breeds, and either as pure- 

 breds or grades make the most desirable kind of feeder lambs. For the 

 last two years in Idaho Hampshire rams have been selling more readily 

 than those of any other breed. 



THE OXFORD 



The Oxford Down sheep comes from Oxford county in central 

 England and is the result of a Hampshire-Cotswold cross. In some 

 characteristics the Oxford, as might be inferred from its ancestry, re- 

 sembles the Hampshire. The Oxford, however, is larger, averaging 

 for the rams 275 pounds and 200 pounds for the ewes, is more rangy 

 and bigger framed in every way, the face a lighter brown, the nose with 



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