The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

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Results Attracting Attention s,1i ,ttllll
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Flying Machine. 81 rs

Sttanco III our social and business inter-
K course, and brought tho gn1out hs and ears
j Of the human race together. Every
u deaf persoI, revere Ri3r 4 13ell as the pros
y ,,,oter OF his father Invention OF Visible
speech. whereby the so-called dumb talk
S$nnd Understand tlelr slows, and i he
scientific world knows him for his many;
4 departments nlonE original lines Il and
Sjust now especially for his new 'discov.I
cries as to aerial avigation. IN a ~
as8 There Is, however, q field In which DR.,
s. Bell has been working OF which the world
& knows nothing 4 Is Il strange Held for. for
& him, but like the others III l1icll he has
been 90 successful, one where practical
y results are being reached by the patient
npp1ica ton B Of scientific principles II
n IS In experiment tai & evolution, and thats
4 more especially as related to stock breed
I ing.. DR.. Bell has been working In this
"A field for about sixteen years, and " his
y work has Alrendy resulted in the orlg ina
y ton Of a new breed Of sheep. It has
i also brought forth the discovery ot 8prin-
81 cples, which, II carried out to their full
h may In stitne make great changes In our
4 sheep Industry and in the physical make
up OF that race OF animals throughou vt! the
world. t4 $s .4l sSSf
Sheep Bree ding in Australia and
at Home. 5
Dr. Bell's discoveries are not like any
thing attempted In tho past. That sheep
can I'd improved BY selectve breeding IS i
\ we'll appreciated in NIL the great grazing
n countries & Take, for ms lance, Aus ralia,5
u II have! seen rams sold there at auction
al 5000 apiece for their wool growing
* Qualities, and have been told q hat the
n average fleece OF seven pounds had been
Il Increased to ten II pounds on flools 5s Of
81 thousan Il In New Zealand, the CHIEF
r. tf1f,t,
\: Of the lambs has been grea tly bette rel q
N by proper breed lng. I'll and a here s IN the
United Stat es,s w here we have something
III like co. 600 900 sh eep, our best stockmena
Il are In E5the same way q ding to thelr8
~ profits on wool and mutton Indeed, the
breeding OF fine sheep is no considered 4
H quite us & Important as the Dreecllng ol8
d fine cattle. Wool is selling for over thirty y
al cents a pound, and we arc ssheArlng from
a FORTY to fifty million sheep every year
IN If we can add a pound to every feece
~ the increase \ in our wool CLIP Will pc
q forty million pounds per snnnunl, n ana
y It present prices viii add So ooo, 600 to
Issss It's value. p, 55g ~ 81 ss6
i$57 An even creator result can be obtained
81 II we could have more and bett er lam ps,
M for they form one Of the CHIEF reccltSs
III from our sheep industry The mum pered
~ q 0oO. 600 at the last census and were the
ffsprings 4 Of 81, 900. 900 ewes. averaging
q about two lambs to every three ewes. Had
IN ca CHI Of the ewes had twins our lamb
n crop would have equaled o., 600, 900 instea
Esy or e, OOo, 100, and s would have sold Tor
three times as much Z! 1; ii. s5t
Dr.. Bells Sheep. 51.
II III these facss give some idea Of the !prac-
S$tical side Of Or. Bell experiments. The
II scientific side is even more Interesting and
III "a r-reaching Iii It's ties, and 1t Is
the one which appeals especially to him
sg The work Is going on steadily upon his
~ country estate near Paddock, Nova Scotia,
Il and now also at the farm Of the Car-
/ negieS Institute on Long Island. where
studies In experimen tai evolution are be-
7 Ing made. #ittss " x .
Dr. Davenport the head Of the carne-
81 sic farm. has been furnished with some
$$ a. DR.. Belts sheep, and a set Of care
81 fully recorded experiments will be made
*g3 by him under the auspices OF tho Car
10 negie Institution. n Il f5 Il q u t
sfSS But / will give you the story as pr. Bell
"a s told It TO me lust before he left for Nova
81 Scotia a few weeks ago.
~ do not know that,you are acquainted
with sheep, said III Nlany people arai
4 not. I have had farmers scoff at the idea
that sassp hav1 no Npcr iron; teeth,
and have seen them surprised to find this
about sheep until 1893. when I bought
the farms at ,3o!rn Dhra,sh. which now
compose my summer Tome. In Nova Secs
~, tia, near Baddeck. A LJp,,1 ore Of these
farms found q flock of ffty-one ewes,
and the following spring I observed That
M about one-haH OF the lambs produced
ts8 were twins, Some OF the ewes had but
IF one lamb. but many had two, and I
q began to wonder II thsre was not some
+ characteristic when would enable one
n TO distinguish the withdrawing ewes,
TO find out made q careful examination
II OF the milk-bags Of all tie mothers. Now
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