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sheep is to buy one or more shearing arms, depending on the size 

 of his flock, operated on a Une shaft driven by a gasohne engine or 

 whatever source of power is used to drive the other farm ma- 

 chinery. Since hand shearers are becoming so scarce, it would 

 seem that a farmer having a ilock of fifty to seventy-five sheep and 

 who already has the power to drive it, is justified in purchasing a 

 machine of this type. 



Good for Merinos 



Because of improper construction and poor methods of grinding 

 knives some of the earlier machines were unsuccessful when used 

 on Merinos, but they have been perfected so that they are now as 

 successful with Merinos as with any other class of sheep. For the 

 last seven years we have used the machine on our experimental 

 flocks of "B" and "C" type Merinos, shearing around 600 sheep an- 

 nually. A few slight difficulties were encountered at first but 

 since we have learned to operate the machine we would not go 

 back to the hand shears. We have not used the machine ex- 

 tensively on very wrinkly or "A" type sheep but I can see no 

 reason why such sheep cannot be shorn with the machine. 



(Photo from Oklahoma Experiment Station.) 



Machine Power — The Right Way 



