DRAFTED SHEEP READY FOR SHEARING. View showing the race full of drafted sheep ready to be driven into the shearing shed.
DRIVING A MOB OF SHEEP INTO IHE DRAFTING \ARDS. Sometimes it takes half an hour to get a moib to run througli aai open gateway ; circling round and round, and gradually drawing nearer, until at last one ventures to dash through, and is instantly followed by the remainder of the flock.
THE WOOL SOKTING TABLES. Whea the fleece is shorn it is at once picked up by a boy called a "picker up," who plrces it upon a table in front of the wool classer, whose duty it is to grade it, and brand it according to its quality after it has been put into bales.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 32 (Supplement)
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127DRAFTED SHEEP READY FOR SHEARING. View showing the race full of drafted sheep ready to be driven into the shearing shed. DRIVING A MOB OF SHEEP INTO IHE DRAFTING \ARDS. Sometimes it takes half an hour to get a moib to run througli aai open gateway; circling round and round, and gradually drawing nearer, until at last one ventures to dash through, and is instantly followed by the remainder of the flock. THE WOOL SOKTING TABLES. Whea the fleece is shorn it is at once picked up by a boy called a "picker up," who plrces it upon a table in front of the wool classer, whose duty it is to grade it, and brand it according to its quality after it has been put into bales. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 32 (Supplement)
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