“Sweating” Sheep
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Australia has been investigating the cause or causes of the improvement in shearing secured by “sweating” sheep—a common practice in most shearing sheds of closely packing the sheep in the shearing shed pens for some hours before shearing. It is generally admitted that sheep so “sweated” shear much more easily than those not so treated, and it has formerly been supposed that the sweat or “swint” so produced softened and raised the yolk from the skin surface, enabling the shears to cut easily and closely to the skin without becoming sticky.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 20
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101“Sweating” Sheep Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 20
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