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Show his time to teach others his methods of fitting know-how. John K felt it was worthwhile to pay him $100 for information about which he himself knew little. It was popular at the time to add lamp black to linseed oil and use it to darken the Rambouillet surface wool for show and sale purposes. To learn about measurements and proportions was valuable information for properly mixing the lamp black and oil, and Millar gave instructions on how to trim the wool of show sheep to produce any desired effect. As John K became more experienced in fitting he was able to adjust materials and methods to his own preferences, and he hired good men to work with him. The names of the first men he trained in his ranch work and fitting job were not left on record, nor all recalled now; and to try to name them would result in missing someone. However, a man remembered as being outstanding was Dolph Larsen, and he became a favorite with the entire family. THE RAMBOUILLETS The sheep that John K worked with when he was a youth, and those he later acquired for himself, were just mixtures of ordinary sheep. Their wool production was limited to but a few pounds of wool, about four, and the meat was just meat. It was hard to make a living with such poor stock and John K determined to one day improve sheep until they would be superior and able to produce better meat and more 119 |