WOOLSHED EXPERIENCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 149, 22 April 1914, Page 1

WOOLSHED EXPERIENCE.

To the Editor

Sir, —I wish through the columns of your paper to oiler a suggestion to. the managers of the AYaimato .Techhiqal Association. That is that when their shearing class starts next season the members of their wool-classing class be taken to the shed and under a competent iiistrujetor be given some. lessons in shed management. ' From sny persoiiial knowledge of some of the students of last year'jS class, I know they ha ve had no experience of work in a big shed, and it has frequently happened that when thia manager o|f a shed is absent, his duties are earned out by the woolclasscr; therefore some knowledge oil’ the work is necessary. A good deal can be learned in a shed when shearing is in progress that cannot be taught in the classroom; for instance, “picking-up,” “throwing" and "skirting,” a, fleece, and pressing and branding bales. As I feel certain this suggestion, if carried out, will be of benefit to the students,. I take the liberty of putting it fori ward.-I gm, dtc., JOHN MHERAy. atudholmc, April i3O, 1914-