n6 THE SHEEP AND WOOL INDUSTRY 



lambs' wool, can be instructed and shown how to keep the firsts 

 and seconds of a fine lamb's fleece separate from the firsts 

 and seconds of a coarse one. The following lines will be found 

 suitable for the average flock of Cross-bred lambs : 



A. A. Lambs. Consisting of all the firsts of the fine Cross-bred lambs' of 56*8 



to 58*5 quality, long-stapled, bright and free from burr or seed, when 



possible. 

 A. Cross-bred Lambs'. Consisting of the firsts out of the Cross-bred lambs' 



fleeces of 46*3 to 50*3 quality, long-stapled, bright, and free from burr or 



seed, when possible. 

 B Cross-bred Lambs. Consisting of all the seconds of the A. CROSS-BRED 



LAMBS, also the seconds of the A.A. line. 



The A. Cross-bred line should not contain any of the pure-bred 

 long lambs' wool, such as Lincoln, etc. Any lambs' wool off the 

 latter type of sheep is too coarse and should be kept by itself. 

 The B. Cross-bred lambs' should also be kept free from all stained 

 lambs' and dags. 



Lambs'. Consisting of all the short, stained, fatty and fribby ends, and lambs' 

 locks. This line of wool could be blended in with the ordinary locks, 

 putting the bulkier stains in with the ordinary stained pieces. 



In the Cross-bred lambs' I have advised putting the seconds of 

 the fine and coarse lambs' together. This is necessary in most 

 cases, but if you could get lines of each individual sort it would 

 be much better to keep the fine separate. Then you would have 

 a line of fine seconds and one of coarse also. The coarse seconds 

 could be branded C. CROSS-BRED LAMBS. 



The classer should watch and see the manner in which the 

 lambs' fleeces are delivered to the tables by the picker-up. In 

 most cases I have noticed that the boy or man picking up scoops 

 the fleece up between the two boards and places it upon the table 

 just as he had got it from the shearing board. If done this way 

 the wrong side of the fleece is placed before the lamb-picker that 

 is, the cut ends of the staple are uppermost. It is very difficult to 

 sort Cross-bred lambs' wool properly and quickly with the fleece 

 in that position ; besides, all the burry wool looks just the same 



