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Rambouillet. O. M. Smithson of Illinois states that he has field 

 ewes shearing up to 23 pounds and rams up to 28 to 30 pounds. 

 The two-year-old ram Majestic 71350, bred by F. S. King 

 of Wyoming, is credited with producing a 40-pound fleece in 

 one year. In 19 16 the Oklahoma Agricultural College reported 

 shearing from the two-year-old ram Laramie a fleece weighing 



Fig. 237. Butterfield's Model, a Rambouillet ram that sold in the 1918 Salt Lake 



City ram sale for I3000. He was sold by the Butterfield Live-Stock Company of 



Idaho to Bullard Brothers of California. This is a C type Rambouillet. From 



photograph, by courtesy of the American Sheep Breeder 



46^ pounds with an average length of staple of 3^ inches. 

 Professor Coffey states ^ that a twelve months' fleece of mature 

 rams should weigh from 15 to 25 pounds and ewes from 10 to 18 

 pounds, but these latter figures very naturally apply to carefully 

 bred and selected flocks. 



Crossbred or grade Rambouillet sheep are best known on the 

 Western range, where for some years large numbers of pure-bred 

 rams have been shipped from the Middle West for use on native 



1 Productive Sheep Husbandry, 19 18. 



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