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CARE OF WOOL 



The handling and packing of the wool is a matter 

 of considerable importance. Eastern wool growers 

 who have to handle comparatively few sheep take 

 great pains in folding and tying each fleece, and 

 in the packing of the wool, with the result that 

 their product commands a higher price than the 

 average western wool. The fleece is spread upon 

 the floor, the edge turned in and the entire fleece 

 folded into a neat compact bundle. Often a fold- 

 ing box is used to compress the wool and make 

 each fleece into a bundle of the same size and gen- 

 eral outline. It is then carefully tied with wool 

 twine and packed into a regular wool sack. Where 

 the fleece is of an unusually fine quality, free from 

 dirt and bits of brush, as is usually the case under 

 farm conditions, this extra care in handling and 

 packing the wool will pay good profits for the time 

 and labor expended. 



TREATMENT FOR PARASITES 



Hundreds of years of domestication have made 

 sheep in some respects a delicate animal, and 

 singularly susceptible to disease and to the attacks 

 of parasites, both internal and external, when con- 

 ditions are at all favorable to the development of 

 either. The heavy coat of wool also furnishes 

 favorable environment for the protection and 

 growth of insect parasites. For this reason, the 

 methods of combating these enemies of the sheep 

 are of great importance to the grower. Of all the 

 external parasites, scabies has probably caused the 

 most serious damage to the sheep industry, with 

 ticks a close second. Until comparatively recent 



