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March 18, 1922 
That Sheep-shearing Champion 
I notice !> question in your columns 
about (-hearing sheep, to settle a dispute, 
and would like to enlighten yon a little 
on the question. I have been in the sheep 
business in the State of Washington, and 
am able to give you the fads. The range 
sheep are mostly fine wool sheep, like 
Merinos and Kambouillot.s. and coarse 
wool cross breeds, like half or quarter- 
blood Lincolns. These sheep shear per¬ 
haps eight, to nine pounds on the average. 
I have seen several hand shearers and 
have had them hired, who sheared between 
75 and 100 sheep in a 10-honr day, and 
there are blade_ shearers that make 125 
a day. Experienced machine shearers 
easily shear 125, and very often 110 to 
150 head. They seldom work over 10 
hours, as it is very strenuous on account 
of stooping over. They shear from a floor 
and not from a bench. The sheep are 
penned directly behind them, Jive at a 
time, to count them more easily, by an¬ 
other man, called a wrangler. The fleeces 
are also tied by another man. When the 
weather is not warm the sheep ore closely 
con lined in a closed shed, just before 
shearing, to sweat them. This brings the 
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On page 2(i0 W. N. A. asks for the 
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years ago my uncle and his brother en¬ 
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rise and sunset. My uncle, Elmer Arm¬ 
strong, sheared OS sheep, and his brother, 
•Tames Armstrong, sheared 80 sheep in 
<>ne day. This was done with blades, and 
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On page 269 I read your answer to “a 
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year. Among the shearers was a little 
Mexican, about 5 ft. tall, who sheared his 
105 sheep every day. Among the others, 
while they all tried for the hundred, they 
seldom reached it. They were paid 5 
cents per head. They used no bench, but 
threw the sheep onto its hindquarters, 
with its hack to the shearer's left leg. 
Commencing at the belly he sheared to 
the hack; then, with his left hand, flop¬ 
ped the sheep over and sheared to the 
belly. The wool was taken away by at¬ 
tendants and trodden into big sticks as 
fast as sheared. Nearly all of these 
sheep lost quite a lot of their hide in 
the operation, and all had to go through 
the dtp, made by boiling tobacco leaves, 
lime and sulphur, to keep maggots out. of 
the gashes. w. H. staples. 
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I think you htlve been misinformed in 
regard to shearing sheep, as you state 
about. 35 is a good day’s work with the 
shears. With a machine, anything under 
65 would be considered poor. I have 
front 300 to 500 ewes sheared each year, 
and the young man who has done the 
work for the last three years has never 
put in 10 hours a day, and never has less 
than SO and often over 100 sheared a day. 
One man to catch and set Up and another 
to tie the wool is the way we work it. I 
know of several nieu who will do as well. 
I think the Australian record is some¬ 
thing over 250 per day, for over 30 days, 
I had a sheep shearer offer to bet $100 
that he could shear 100 sheep iu 100 
minutes. I have timed them shearing 
often, when the man did not know that 
he was being timed, and he would turn 
out a perfect job on large ewes in two 
to two minutes and a half. The size of 
the sheep make a big difference in the 
number that can be sheared in a day. as 
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