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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A Day’s Work Shearing Sheep 
Will you tell me how many slieep one 
man can shear in one day with the blades, 
in the far Western States? Can you tell 
me what, the record is for both East and 
West with the blades aud machine? This 
is to settle an argument. w. N. a. 
We have submitted these questions to a 
number of sheep men, and have quite a 
variety of answers. Last year we had 
a picture of William O’Brien, an old 
sheep man in Washington Co.. X. Y. We 
think he is about the champion shearer 
of the Eastern States, lie said that, so 
far as he knows, (if! sheep were the most 
he ever sheared in one day. That was 
40 year’s ago. when people worked from 
sunrise to sunset, and it. would not be 
fair to compare a day's work at this time 
with a day’s work in this modem age. 
when most hired men are thinking about 
an eight-hour day. When a man begins 
to think about such a day. he does not 
accomplish very much after the eight 
hours have passed away. We presume 
that in shearing 63 sheep Mr. O’Brien had 
the sheep put on the bench for him. and 
that someone else tied the wool. At the 
present time we doubt if there are manv 
men who could go into a flock of sheep 
averaging 10 lbs. of wool aud take care 
of 30 of them in a 10-hour day with the 
hand shears. Other sheep men say. tak¬ 
ing the sheep as they come of different 
breeds, tnat they can average about 35 
in a 10-liour day. When it. comes to 
using the machines, of course more rapid 
work can be done. We have one record 
of a sheepman who is handy with the ma¬ 
chine. He says that one afternoon he 
caught and sheared 2S Delaine ewes and 
did up the fleeces. He worked from one 
o’clock in the afternoon to a little after 
Seven. An expert with the machine often 
can shear a sheep iu 10 minutes, but on 
the average, with the best conditions and 
a good machine, four sheep an hour, with 
catching and tying the wool thrown in, 
gives a man all he wants to do. 
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New York State Vegetable Growers 
This association will hold a two-davs’ 
meeting at Syracuse March 1-2. Some 
of the speakers and .subjects are: 
Recent Progress in Control of Cabbage, 
and Sweet Com Insects, Prof. G. W. 
Herrick, Cornell University. 
Vegetable Program at Cornell. Prof. H. 
L. lbompson, Cornell University. 
Maintaining Soil Fertility, W. D. 
Henry. Eden, X. Y. 
Soil Sterilization, Prof. X. A. Kotuno, 
Syracuse, X. Y. 
Good Seed for Xew York State Gar¬ 
deners—Pound Table. Prof. Paul Work, 
Cornell University. 
. Grange League Federation Seed Serv¬ 
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Conditions in the Vegetable Industry 
on Long Island, E. It. Lupton, Priverbead, 
Li X» 
Frost Resistance and Injury to Early 
Plants, Prof. C. C. Carpenter, Syracuse, 
Growing and Marketing Muck Land 
Cro|m Charles P. Russell, Williamson, 
Growing aud Marketing Peas in Madi¬ 
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ticultural School. Morrisville. X. Y. 
Marketing Potatoes and Cabbage. K. C. 
Livermore. Honeoye Falls, X. Y. 
Marketing for Local Co-operative As¬ 
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How the Geneva Experiment Station 
Can Help Vegetable Meu, Dr. R. W. 
Thatcher. Director. 
Preparing Vegetables for Exhibit. 
Profs. Sell neck aud Work. 
The Vegetable Show at State Fair, 
Charles P. Riley. 
^ Fertilizers for Vegetable Crops, Prof. 
E. 1,. Worthen, Cornell University. 
The State association has made marked 
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