Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-18
GREAT PROMISE IN
NEW SHEEP IN
ARIZONA
Experiments With the 'Persi-
ariuS' Attracting Wide At
tentioni Gift to Gen. Lew
Wallace Established Breed
in America.
american stockman.D

The favor in which the late Shah
Of Persia held the late Gen. Lew Wal
lace promises to raise the production
of wool in Arizona to an abundance
and profit not possible except from
the clip Of THE P~ersiarino,' a hybrid
sheep which entered this ountr as
the gift of the deposed monarch of the
Orient to the popular author Of Ben
ltur' and The Fair God 1t is a
strange link in the course Of events
that this sheep, or rather the blood
in the breed which helps to produce
this sheep was brought into the
United States by the man who wrote
50 effectively OF the romance of the
Far East, where the sheep Is held sa-
cred. and also Of the land where its
fleece promises bounty to the shep-
herd Of the Arizona hills.
The man who is doing more than
any other in Arizona to prove the
worth of the Persiarino is f. T..
Pomeroy. lie has a large flock of the
sheep on his rach nea Mesa and is
lthere experimenting on crosses. with
inc result that he has already made a
record for wool production in his sec
ton. The figures he gives and proves
are interesting at this time, because
I ne annual clipping Of Arizona sheep
is now in progress at the various
centers in the Salt River Valley and
elsewhere.
Compared 10 Other Sheep.
Mr.. Pomeroy took from his flock
n lamb which was shorn twice in
the year, once in November and once
again in May. Although the lamb
was only n year old the fleece from
the double clipping weighed nineteen
pounds, as compared with an average
weight OF six pounds for the territory
Wool buyers in Arizona today are
offering tWenty-seven and twenty
cents a pound for WOOL. bur AT
me normal price of twenty-five eonts
lambs fleece was worth in the
year S4.lS, as compared with the aver
age worth of SO for the clip Of a run
sheep.
The meat of the Persiarino is in
nigh Nor wherever il is known. II
does not leave that sleepy" after
math in the mouth that follows the
eating of many a mutton chop. A
Of P%ersiarinos, Buffalo" |
zones or Garden City, Kan, has a
from which he ships regularly
10 chicago getting twenty cents "A
ponnd Tor the lambs. The Persiarino
grows to a large size so that the profit
Is considerable.
h Persiarino. like u beautiful
rose. is a hybrid. lie is a cross be-
-ween the Merino and the descendants
u the two sacred sheep which the
of Persia presented to Gen. Lew
Wallace while the latter was visiting
General Wallace had never
seen Syria nor Palestine when he
wrote Ben Hur," but later he visited
he HOLY Land and the Far East. and
heluded IN his trip a iaunt to the
of the historic land Of Darius
GNTnG The shah fool. e.t-I, ID, l.. 4
'lded fancy to the novelist that, not
outstanding the respect in which the
acfed sheep are held, he prevailed
lpon General Wallace to accept as a
MT two Of the most beautiful speci-
mems in the royal flock.
How The Breed Was Made.
These. with the two which entered
ms country also as gifts were the
and Ewes of the P%ersiarinos !
.o" seen in the southwest. The terri
ory $ climate is favorable to the
'rowth OF the breed and crossing has ,
successful The fleece is d
nine inches long and of "a quail q
~ fine as silk. S
Inc Persjorino, like the sheep on
steppes of Algeria and Tunis
mich have seen tended in immense J
10y the Kabvles and other g
Ines OF Fedouin habits. have enor-
fiat tails. In these tails the
neer store up liberal quantities of fat
IT which they have no other room ,
in case Of lack OF food they draw
n this extra supply. as a bear draws ,
. stored fat during periods of hiber- :,
alton or a camel on its humps. The
are not cut in Arizona, as there
no danger of freezing to the ground
In the case of the Perisarfno Il Is |,
that al times h weighf OF I.