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Factors Influencing the Value of Range Fleeces. Studies in Fleece Length, Fineness, Density, Yield and Value

Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

In a previous paper in the 1937 Proceedings (Burns, 1937) it was pointed out that range sheepmen, in order to conduct their business on an economical basis must know and raise a higher quality and quantity of the products which they sell.

They can readily see the factors which make for profit or loss on the lamb side of the business, but wool is more complex to understand, and they have felt the need for information concerning the improvement of their wool clip.

For a number of years the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station has been carrying on studies of the factors which affect fleece value. Sheep culling for fleece and lamb production has been conducted very successfully for a number of years in the western states by the touch system as reported by Hill, 1919, 1921, Lindgren, 1927; and more recently by Fellhauer, 1938 and Fellhauer and Hill, 1940. The first attempts on sheep culling for fleece production were done by weighing the fleeces, but it was soon found that one must keep other factors besides fleece weight in mind when culling, in order to obtain a balanced and efficient production of lamb and wool.