Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . forward end(3) is then folded toward the breech, to a point (represented by dottedline) corresponding with the point of the shoulder. The breech (4) is nextfolded toward the head. The fleece now presents an oblong square rep-resented by 5 and 6. On the breech, in a small, compact bunch—so theycan be, subsequently, readily sepa-rated from the fleece—the clean fribsare placed. They do not includetrimmings, (the wool from theshanks,) wh
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . forward end(3) is then folded toward the breech, to a point (represented by dottedline) corresponding with the point of the shoulder. The breech (4) is nextfolded toward the head. The fleece now presents an oblong square rep-resented by 5 and 6. On the breech, in a small, compact bunch—so theycan be, subsequently, readily sepa-rated from the fleece—the clean fribsare placed. They do not includetrimmings, (the wool from theshanks,) which should not be done upin the fleeces. The fribs may be laidin at some earlier stage of the folding—^but if thrown on top of the fleece,as is very customaiy, before it is fold-ed at all, they show through, if thelatter gets strained apart, as it fre-quently happens in the process of roll-ing—and being coarser and perhapsless white than the fine shoulder wool,they injure the appearance of thefleece. The fleece is now folded to-gether by turning 5 over on to 6, andthe tyer carefully sliding it around onthe shoulder shall be toward him, it Fig. WOOL-TROUGH. the table with his arms, so Ihafappears as in fig. 24, ready tofo into the wool-trough. The wool-trough, which is above represented im SHEEP HUSBANDRY THE SOUTH. Fig. 25.
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