Word: ritzman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CARL RITZMAN...
...Bell's death in 1922 his son-in-law, Plant Explorer David Fairchild, turned the flock over to Professor Ernest Ritzman of the University of New Hampshire, an expert breeder who had already developed a superior type of sheep combining the better features of fine-wooled Rambouillets and meaty Southdowns. Since Bell's sheep, for all their twins and nipples, were neither very meaty nor very fleecy, Ritzman began crossing the two unusual stocks. At last years end his work was finished, and his retirement neared, so he turned the flock over to Federal stock breeders at Middlebury...