Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-25
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toplrlEhh lfNh ~ ffank ~ NaIltH''''
w yTAsHlNGTON. ], C-Every
wv man, woman and child has
w heard ~ Dr Alexander era
ham He'll. who. by nveuting
the telephone, snnihilaied distance IN
our social and business intercourse,
and brought the mouths and cars %
the human race together Every deaf
person reyeres DR.. Bell "a he promo
ter % his fathers invention ~ visible
speech. whereby The so-calied dumb
talk ana understand their fellows, and
the scientific world knows him FOR his
many experiments along original lines
and Just now especially for his new
discoveries as 10 aerial navigation.
There IS. however. field IN which
Or, Bel has been working u which
the world knows nothing. Il IS a.
strange neld for him. but. Ike the oih-
ors In which he has been 30 successful
one whore practical results are being
reached by the patient Application ~
scientific principles, II IS On cyperl-
mental evolution. and that more espec-
clally ss Vlatod to stock breeding. DR.
Bell has been working IN Ibis field Tor
about ls years, and his work has ale
ready resulted iu the originatiou ~ a
new breed Of sheep. II has also brough,
forth the discovery OF principles, which,
n carried out to their iull, may in time
make great changes iu our sheep In
dustry and iu the physical makeup ~
that race az animals throughout The
world.
SHEEP BREEDING ~ AUSTRALIA
AND AT HOME.
Dr. Belle discoveries are not IKE
anything attempted in the past. That
sheep can be improved by seSlectirr
breeding IS well appreciated in all the
great grazing COUNTLESS Take for IN
stance. Australia. ] have seen rams
sold there 40 auction al S5NJ apiece
for their wool-grov-ng qualities, and
have been told that the average fleece
OF seven pounds had been increased 10
ten pounds on fi0ciJs Of thousands In
New Zealand. The chief mutton country
OF the world, the weight u the lambs
has been greatly bettercd by proper
breeding. aud here in the United States.
where we have something like eO.0O0OO)
sheep, our best ssockmen are IN the
same way adding TO their profits on
wool and mutton. Indeed, the breeding
OF fine sheep Is now considered quite as
important as the breeding ~ cattle.
Wool Is selling for over 30 cents a
IA sbgngsiylfr from font
10 Any million sheep every year. II
we can add a pound 10 every fleece the
l,nrrease In our wool clip VIII b. 49,.
100000 per annufn, and at present prices
will add S2oO0,OOO TO its value.
An even greater result can be OBJ
tAined N we could have nDro and bet
ter lambs. for they form one Of the
chief receipts from our sheep indus
try. They numbered 22,0o0,00O at the
last census and were the offspring OF
81 100000 ewes. averaging about two
lambs 10 every three ewes. Had each
OF the ewes had twins our lamb crop
would have edualled Gs,Oo0.000 instead
of 1900. 900 and would hayessold for
three timessas much.
DR.. BELLStSHEEP
These facts give some idea Of the |
practical side OF DT. Bells experiments.
me scientific side In even more inter
esting and far-qeaching In It's possible |
ties. and II If the one which appeals |
especially to him. The work is going |
on steadily upon his y0untry estate |
near Baddeck. Nova Scotia, and now al
80 al the farm OF the Carnegie Institute |
on Long Island, where studies I'm ex- |
detrimental evolution are being made.
Dr. Davenport. the head Of the Car
Inegie farm, has been furnished with |
some Of Or. Bells sheep. and a set Of |
carefully recorded experiments viii be |
made by him under the auspices OF the !
Carnegie institution.
But / win give you the story "a DR.. /