14 Treatment of Sheep, 



after — the wool will be shorter and fitter for hatters' 

 use, and will be the better grown as a protection 

 against the cold of the ensuing winter. 



** Lambs wool is much injured by a pitch brand^- 

 a small paint brand is recommended, and that it should 

 be placed on the forehead or hip, rather than the side 

 or shoulder, which bears the finer wool. 



*' 4th, — fFith respect to making up. — The fleece, 

 when shorn, is to be spread at large, with the outside 

 uppermost, upon a platform of boards, and is to be 

 carefully folded and rolled, beginning at the hinder 

 part, and folding in the sides, or belly wool, as the roll- 

 ing proceeds; when arrived at the shoulders, the wool 

 of the forepart is to be rolled back to meet the other, 

 instead of having the binder twisted from thence in 

 the usual manner, and the whole is to be secured by 

 a packcord band, in the common way in which parcels 

 are tied up. 



'* The fleece is by these means kept much tighter 

 together, and unfolds itself with more regularity, un- 

 der the hand of the sorter, who is otherwise much in- 

 convenienced, by the confusion or breaking of these 

 parts of the fleece, which are twisted together for the 

 band, in the common method." 



