Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . sheep may require clipping again in the fall. Time between Washing and Shearing.—This depends altogether o-,circumstances. From four to six days of bright warm weather is sufficienr. If cold and rainy, or cloudy, more time must elapse. I have knowntlie wool to remain in an unfit condition to shear a fortnight after washingTlie rule is, the water should be thoroughly dried out, and the natural oilof the wool should so far exude as to gi
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . sheep may require clipping again in the fall. Time between Washing and Shearing.—This depends altogether o-,circumstances. From four to six days of bright warm weather is sufficienr. If cold and rainy, or cloudy, more time must elapse. I have knowntlie wool to remain in an unfit condition to shear a fortnight after washingTlie rule is, the water should be thoroughly dried out, and the natural oilof the wool should so far exude as to give the wool an unctuous feel anda lively, glittering look. If you shear it when dry, like cotton, before theoil has exuded, you cheat yourself, and the wool will not keep so well forlong periods.* If you leave it until it gets too oily, you cheat the manu-facturer, or what more often happens, you lose on the price. Shearing—Is always done, in this country, on the threshing-floors ofour barns, sometimes on low platforms, but more commonly on the flooritself. The following cut represents a common Northern bam propeilyairanged for this purpose. Fig. SHEARING ARRANGEMENTS. On the threshing-floor, three men are seen shearing—twc of them usinga low table or platform, say 18 or 20 inches high. The bay t (1, 2)nearest the eye is divided by a temporary fence, one part (1) being usedfur the yarding of the sheep, and the other (2) for doing up the wool, & inclosure 1 should communicate by a door with another and largeryard outside of the barn. Both of these should be well littered down with * It is aho very difficult to thrust the shears through this dry wool in shearing. } The room lor storins hay. grain. &c., which is always found on one. and eometimes on each side of th«Olreshiiig-rtocr in a Noilhern barn, is provincially termed a bay —and the low division between this anj4ie threshing flaor a breastwoik. SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 185 Ptraw, and fresh straw throw
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