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hoop about eight inches of the sack like a selvage or hem. Set the 

 hoop into the circle cut lor it, and after the assistant, standing on the 

 ground, has pulled down the selvage even all around, wedge up the 

 piece. You may now tramp in the sack to any extent, it will not come 

 down unless it tears. From two hundred to two hundred and fifty 

 pounds of wool should he put into a saek. Double these weights of 

 heavy wool can be put in, but ought not to be, for the same reason that 

 fleeces ought not to be tied up like bullets; many a wool buyer would 

 object, and would really believe, that the shrinkage would he greater on 

 the same lot of wool packed four hundred pounds to the bale than when 

 packed two hundred and fifty pounds to the bale. When the sack is 

 filled, put a rail or scantling under the lower end and raise it while the 

 man above knocks out the wedges and removes the piece. The mouth 

 of the sack may now be sewed up, leaving two ears on this end also; 

 after which, let it down, taking it out of the stage-frame through the 

 side left open. 



