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dressed out in carcass 53.6 and 52.54 per cent, and the carcasses 

 were valued at $4.25 and ^5 per hundred, a materially poorer 

 showing, however, than most of the other breeds made. The 

 average daily gain of Suffolk yearling wethers at the Smithfield 

 show, of .45 pound per day, excelled any of the Down breeds, 

 while the wether lambs made the remarkable daily average gain 

 of .70 pound, being excelled only by the Lincoln with .72 pound. 



Fig. 288. A Suffolk ram, champion at the 1914 Show of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England. From photograph by the author 



During twenty-one years, up to 191 5, in the Smithfield Club 

 carcass competition Suffolks won eight championships and three 

 reserves, in competition with all breeds and crosses. 



The Suffolk crossbred or grade is comparatively unknown in 

 North America, but in South America it has been used on Merino 

 grades to produce good mutton sheep. Suffolk rams are gaining 

 much in favor in some parts of England and Scotland for using 

 on draft ^ ewes. Commenting on the crossbred as it has appeared 

 in Australasia, E. M. Prentice writes^: 



1 Aged ewes culled from the flock. 



^ Live Stock Journal Almanac (London, 1917), p. 134. 



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