“Go Slow" Shearing
TF a Russian report is correct, Soviet. * shearers must have adopted “go slow” tactics.
A recent report about Russian sheep that shed their coats must have amused Gisborne farmers. It was stated that a Soviet scientist treated a flock of 2500 sheep with chemicals, and that 10 or 12 days later they shed their wool. It took from three to seven minutes to remove all the wool from each sheep, compared with an average of 40 minutes for shearing! If a New Zealand shearer took 40 minutes to shear a sheep, Iris earnings would not be much at 17s Oil per 100. In a 12-hour day, most good Gisborne shearers should lie able to do up to 150 sheep a. da'v, meaning that he would do one sheep every five minutes. In this respect, therefore, the chemical .treatment would be no advantage.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 17977, 3 January 1933, Page 10
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145“Go Slow" Shearing Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 17977, 3 January 1933, Page 10
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