Shearing Sheep
Sir, —The Wool Board is conducting shearing competitions. There have been complaints from the wool stores about poor skirting of fleeces, poor floor sweeping. A “fleecy” has no show of sweeping his board if five fleeces come off together: that has to be done later. With better sheep husbandry more sheep are being shorn daily. I would suggest to the Wool Board that it revive the old style of competition: Three sheep, Merino wether, halfbred or Corriedale, long-wool sheep. The Merino, halfbred and Corriedale are top blade work. The long wool could be bottom blade. Sometimes the wool rises behind the blade, causing a blade shearer to scrape the rise in wool. This would do away with a- good deal of the fast glamour shearing that is taking place today. This is blade shearing. At the present time just one
type of sheep is being used. I consider a mixture of different types of sheep would create interest for blades or machines.—Yours, etc., ALEX BROWN. October 19, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 16
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