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OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: BULLETIN 294 



The treatment of the lots with respect to washing and time of 

 shearing was as follows: 



Lot 1. Washed; shorn about April 12. 



Lot 2. Unwashed; shorn about April 12. 



Lot 3. Washed; shorn about June 1. 



Lot 4. Unwashed; shorn about June 1. 



Each lot was shorn as nearly as possible on the same date each 

 year, so that with the exception of the 1911 clip the fleeces removed 

 represent a variation of not more than 2 days from a year's growth. 



A short time before being washed in 1913, one-half of the sheep 

 in Lots 1 and 2 were shifted from one lot to the other, and a similar 

 shift was made in Lots 3 and 4. This was done to overcome any 

 inequality between lots that might have resulted from the original 

 division. It was impossible to make any shift between the lots 

 shorn in April and those shorn in June, and still secure a year's 

 growth of wool. 





Washed sheep, April, 1912 



Unwashed sheep, April, 1912 



