WOOL-CLASSING 



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the lambs' fleece is an advantage only when you have very bulky 

 Merino summer or cross-bred lambs' fleeces, which are more like 

 the fleeces off older sheep. 



After the firsts, consisting of the bulky free wool, have been 

 picked out of the fleece, the remaining portion will consist of burry 

 wool, with a little stained, and dags. The stained wool 

 should be picked out of the burry, and all dags taken from it. 

 The burry lambs will then go into the seconds or "A. Lambs'." 



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SORTING MERINO LAMBS' WOOL ON STATION. 



The stains are kept by themselves. If they are very short and 

 dirty they can be blended in with the locks, which are short fribby 

 bits and second cuts, swept up after the shearer has finished 

 shearing the sheep. Lambs' wool is often covered with coarse 

 hairs called mother hair. This hairy wool looks very nice, and is 

 much brighter than the other lambs' wool, but it should never be 

 allowed to go into the top line, because lambs' wool with this hair 

 through it is generally about 2d. per Ib. under the value of the 

 other. If you do not get sufficient of this hairy lambs' wool to 



