DOING UP WOOL. 



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Sheep are sheared twice a year in portions of the Southern 

 States. This may be a sort of necessity to save the wool, 

 where they are suffered to run at large in forests or on lands 

 infested by brambles. But where sheep are treated like domes- 

 ticated animals, and kept on cleared and inclosed pastures, 

 neither necessity nor utility can be pleaded for the practice. 



DOING UP WOOL. The fleece having been desposited on 

 the folding table, with its inside ends downward, the wool-tyer 



FOLDING TABLE. 



first spreads it out to its full extent, restoring every part to 



its natural relative position. Dung and other impurities 



being removed, the fleece is pressed together in the same 



position as closely as practicable. One of the sides (1 in 



above cut,) is then folded directly over or inverted toward 



the middle of the 



fleece so that it covers 



5. The opposite side 



(2) is then folded over 



and inward in the 



same way, covering 6, 



and leaving the fleece 



in a long strip, some 



twenty inches wide. 



The neck (3) is next 



folded toward the 



breech; and the breech 



(4) toward the neck. 



The fleece is now 



brought into the ob- E EEADT rOB PBM9 ' 



long square represented by 5 and 6. ILtving placed the clean 



