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to be clipped with that particular stroke of the shear. 

 If, for instance, the shearer is clipping the mohair 

 along the sides of the animal, and the point of the 

 shear cuts some of the mohair at least three inches 

 out from the body, this stubble is shorn again (double 

 cut) when the shearer gets to this place, and this 

 three-inch mohair is too short to be of much value. 

 It will be combed out at the mill as noil. An ex- 

 pert shearer can clip about the same number of range 

 goats that he can range sheep from ninety to one 

 hundred and twenty a day. 



The machine shear is rapidly taking the place of 

 the hand shear. It clips the mohair close to the 

 skin and almost does away with double cutting. It 

 requires less skill to shear with a machine shear, and it 

 does the work more uniformly. There is also less 

 danger of cutting the animal. The machines do the 

 work very rapidly. 



After the goat is shorn the fleece should be col- 

 lected and rolled into a bundle, "bump," and placed 

 in a sack or bale. It should not be tied, as the mill 

 men object to the particles of string which remain in 

 the mohair and disfigure the manufactured product. 

 Any colored fleeces, discolored mohair, or mohair con- 

 taining objectionable features, such as burrs, straw, 

 etc., can be placed in separate parcels. The kid mo- 

 hair can be kept by itself, and the wether and doe 

 mohair can be separately packed. The long mohair 



