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Title: Management and feeding of sheep
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Shaw, Thomas, 1843-1918
Subjects: Sheep
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sideof the neck, and beginning at the ears, the neck and bodyare shorn by running the shears around to the ridge ofthe topline. The sheep is then turned over and the rightside is shorn in the same way. Each line made by theshears should be at right angles with the topline. Sheepthus shorn have a zebra-like appearance, which is veryattractive. Fat sheep have a very neat appearance whenshorn thus, but lean sheep look best when shorn by thelong method. An expert shearer will never cut the wooltwice, that is, he will not, even when shearing past thespinal column, point the shears so high that any of thewool will have to be clipped again. Clipping twice meanswaste of wool. When sheep are shorn by machinery, some kind ofpower is necessary to drive the clippers used when atwork. When done in a large way, a long line of shaft-ing is put in place, so that many shearers may work simul-taneously along the line of the same. The power calledfor is not large in amount, compared with the work done.
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302 WASHING AND SHEARING SHEEP 303 Small machines are sometimes used for flocks on farmsthat are limited in numbers. These are sometimes workedby hand power, one person furnishing the power and an-other using the clippers. In some instances wind poweris used, and also power obtained from tread mills. Wherethe power is furnished by hand, it is yet somewhat ques-tionable as to whether this method will come into generaluse. But where power is furnished from other sources,shearing machinery will doubtless almost entirely super-sede hand shearing. The following instructions in the use of the clipperswill be found helpful: Place the sheep in an upright posi-tion and hold it tightly between the knees. When inposition the shearer should be about one foot to the leftof the long tube and about one foot in front of it. Whenshearing, always turn the sheep to the right, which shouldbe done with the foot, rather than with the hand. Whenthe sheep is in position, part the wool in front of the bris-ke

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