DOING UP WOOL. 



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Sheep are sheared twice a year in portions ot the Southern 

 States. This may be a sort of necessity to save the wool, 

 where they are suffered to run at large in forests or on lands 

 infested by_ brambles; But where sheep are treated like domes- 

 ticated animals, and kept on cleared and inclosed pastures, 

 neither necessity nor utility can be pleaded for the practice. 



Doing Up Wool. — The fleece having been despdsited on 

 the folding tablej with its inside ends downward, the wopl-tyer 



rOLCmG TABLE. 



first spreads it out to its full extent, restoring every part to 



its natural relative position. Dung and other impurities 



being removed, the fleece is pressed together in the same 



position as closely a8 practicable. One of the sides (1 in 



above cut,) is then folded dii-ectly over or inverted toward 



the middle of the 



fleece so that it covers 



5. The opposite side 



(2) is then folded over 



and inward in the 



same way, covering 6, 



and leaving the fleece 



in a long strip, some 



twenty inches wide. 



The neck (3) is next 



folded toward the 



breech; and the breech 



4) toward the neck. 



"he fleece is now 

 brought into the ob- 

 long square represented by 6 and 6. Having placed the clean 



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