. Elementary agriculture . Fig. 24. All form stock need shade. Shearing Sheep. It takes several seasons for a man to become a good sheepshearer. A good shearer will take the wool from sixty to eighty sheep a day with common hand sheepshears. Shearing ma- chines, which are sheepshears attached to a long rod and managed by power, are now very common. The sheep is turned into a narrow alley and in a few minutes he comes out without his coat. It is far easier to shear with the machine than by hand.

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