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$42,000, or brought an average of over $750. In 1909 one 

 ram brought about $3000. Owing to the death of Mr. Dudding 

 the Riby Grove fiock was dispersed in 191 3, on which occasion the 

 ram Riby Bristol Champion brought $3000 and 139 yearhng rams 

 averaged about ;^233 each. In 1918, at the Lincoln ram sales, 

 A. W. Dean of Dowsby Hall, Bourne, purchased 1 1 stud rams at 

 an average price of $800 each for service in his own flock. How- 

 ever, he later sold these to go to Buenos Aires for the record 

 price of Si6?o each, one of these rams bringing $6250. The 



highest prices paid in the 

 United States for Lincolns, 

 up to 19 1 8, occurred in 

 1 9 1 7 at the Salt Lake City 

 sale, when an imported ram 

 soldfor$65otoA.D.Blod- 

 gett of Colorado. One ram 

 was also sold for $550 to 

 the Butterfield Live Stock 

 Company of Idaho, and an- 

 other for $550 to Austin 

 Brothers of Utah. Twenty- 

 one rams consigned by 

 Anoka Farms of Wiscon- 

 sin averaged $195.71. 



The distribution of the 

 Lincoln sheep is very wide- 

 spread. In Britain it is 

 largely limited to Lincolnshire and adjoining east counties in 

 England, but it has been extensively imported to the British 

 colonies and to South America and Canada. Herbert Gibson 

 states that in 1862 one Lincoln ram was shipped to his father, 

 Thomas Gibson, on the Yngleses estancia in Argentina; in 1863 

 a large number were imported, followed by two lots in 1864 and 

 successive importations each year after. A very large per cent of 

 the 67,000,000 sheep in Argentina about 1910 are said to have 

 been pure Lincolns or crosses of this breed. From October i, 

 19 1 2, to September 30, 191 3, there were exported from England 

 2400 rams and ewes as follows: 1728 rams and 468 ewes to 



Fig. 304. A Lincoln ewe lamb of very superior 

 character at the 1904 show of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England. Her fleece 

 swept the ground. From photograph by 

 H. B. Arbuckle, by courtesy of the A^ational 

 Stockman and Farmer 



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