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DON'T USE HAND POWER 



depreciation, and repairs, will about offset the saving in time. 

 However, when time is as valuable as it is on the farm in the spring 

 it is worth something to get the shearing done quickly. 



Don't Use Hand Power 



The type of machine to buy will be determined by conditions. 

 It is difficult to see any economy in the machine turned by hand, 

 under most circumstances, because of its narrow cut, unsteady 

 power, and the fact that it requires the time of one man to turn it. 



Traveling Shearers 



In some sections of Ohio there are men who own portable "two- 

 man" machines and go around the country doing custom shearing 

 at a fixed price per head. This seems to be a good solution of the 

 shearing problem in the case of flocks too small to justify the pur- 

 chase of a power machine and where enough flocks are kept to 

 justify some one in the neighborhood in purchasing a machine. 

 I doubt the economy of a farmer purchasing a machine of this 

 type with a built-in engine merely for his own use. 



Use Gasoline Engine 



What looks like a better plan for a farmer having fifty or more 



Hand Power The Hard Way 



