. The American shepherd : being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases : illustrated with portraits of different breeds, sheep barns, sheds, &c. : with an appendix, embracing upwards of twenty letters from eminent wool-growers and sheep-fatteners of different states, detailing their respective modes of management . Sheep; Sheep. 178 MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP, that their fleeces were gnawed off rather than shorn. But with a view to repress indignation, the writer will not enter into further description of such slovenly-looking objects, but propose the question, Whose
. The American shepherd : being a history of the sheep, with their breeds, management, and diseases : illustrated with portraits of different breeds, sheep barns, sheds, &c. : with an appendix, embracing upwards of twenty letters from eminent wool-growers and sheep-fatteners of different states, detailing their respective modes of management . Sheep; Sheep. 178 MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP, that their fleeces were gnawed off rather than shorn. But with a view to repress indignation, the writer will not enter into further description of such slovenly-looking objects, but propose the question, Whose fault is this, and to whose door is it to be laid 1 Is it the shearer, or is it the master 1 In the first place, the mass of wool-growers are themselves ignorant of the details of this important art, very few having ever learned it practically, and consequently are incompetent, to teach it. Therefore, when the shearer is proceeding with his work, the master looks on, and, if faults are committed, he is incapable of directing how they shall be avoided. He may, it is true, vehemently denounce the ijg'i-''fnin^s and cruelty of the shearer, but he has not himsen i.; *" knowledge to take the shears ancF i^t^?***^ "^ilti should be held, and how far they should c* â or the position the sheep should lip 'i tearing the fleece with its feet. In au. probable that the shearer, with a vir'" ' two, has been hired to perform-the v,..." . much per head; and under such circurfif^ " cuts in" and dashes ahead to accoh i speedy time, regardless of the, scolding^ oi manner of his work, or humaMty to the^ There are shearers, but they are few, who ca* work quickly and yet do it well; but these have accpired the art correctly at the beginning, and have wisely a^^ered to its rules through a long experience. But the great ma- ' jority have been spoiled when learning the rudiments, by the very class of farmers alluded to. Thus e#en shearers who have had the benefit of some
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