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Show Then a light was seen when the World's Fair was being held in Chicago. A German sheep breeder, Von Honeyer, sent a small flock of his Rambouillets to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (May 1 to October 30)2. He had produced an animal with large and sturdy frame, covered with a splendid fleece of good grade, compared to old types. The meat was of good flavor and his sheep were immediately favored. Their fame spread rapidly westward. In 1896, John H. Seely sent men to Europe to find the best of the Rambouillet breed and bring them to Utah. When John K first started to breed for an increase in wool yield from his ewes, after his first year of share-herding, he began using rams Mr. Seely was producing. It required generations of sheep, however, to improve the motley blood mixtures in the sheep that were all John K had ever known. But improve them he did, after, as previously recounted, he thoughtfully grasped the opportunity of bidding on the Jim Fiske ewes in 1909. Rambouillets are now conceded to be the- foundation of the entire sheep industry as it came to be known in western United States. Their rugged, vigorous qualities, their docile behavior on the range, along with their commerical value won for them a steady popularity that kept pace with their gradual improvement. The ewes of this breed have made excellent mothers as a rule, and tests concluded that they produced very high 122 |