BURRS, 
While we have the very latest and most improved machinery for re¬ 
moving burrs, there has never yet been invented one that will remove 
them from wool without more or less injury to it and loss of fibre. The 
human hand alone can remove them without particles of wool still ad¬ 
hering to them, and this gentle process alone preserve the fibre from 
injury. But the slowness of hand-picking renders it so expensive that it 
is far more economical to keep the sheep from coming in contact with 
burrs. “ Evil communications ” with no more certainty “ corrupt good 
manners ” than contact with burrs taints the life and character of a valu¬ 
able fleece of wool. 
CONCLUSION. 
The limits of this pamphlet are too brief to enter into many other 
points of value connected with this interesting subject. Experience has 
demonstrated the suggestions herein as worthy of attention, and to over¬ 
look them tends, more or less, to deteriorate a valuable fibre for which 
nature has done so much, but which ofttimes receives very rough treat¬ 
ment from the hands of artificial practice. 
ADVANTAGES OF SHEEP. 
1. They are profitable. 
2. They weaken the soil least, and strengthen it most. ■ 
3. They are enemies of weeds. 
4. The care they need is required when other farm operations are 
slack. 
- 5. The amount of investment need not be large. 
6. They are the quietest and easiest handled of all farm stock. 
7. The returns are quick and many. 
8. Other farm products are made more largely from cash grains, 
while those from the sheep are made practically from pasture. 
9. There is no other product from the farm that has fluctuated so 
lightly in value as good mutton. 
10. By comparison wool costs nothing, for do not the horse and cow, 
in shedding their coats, waste what the sheep save? 
11. A good flock of sheep is the best helper, not only in filling the. 
purse, but in keeping up the condition of the land without really any 
extra expense, that is within reach of the husbandman. One thing should 
therefore be remembered by farmers who have suitable land at their 
command: that they make a very great mistake, and submit to annual 
loss, of more importance than they imagine, in the absence of a good 
flock of improved sheep browsing upon their hills. 
12. The last, but by no means the least, advantage is having a medium 
of exchange, with which to procure any of the numerous and varied pro¬ 
ducts of the Leaksville Woolen Mills at the least possible cost. 
HOW TO SHIP WOOL. 
When it is not convenient to ship wool through one of our agents, 
you can ship it direct to us. We, however, receive so many packages 
not properly marked, thus causing delay in returning goods, that we add 
below a few important details which, if carefully followed, will insure a 
speedy return of goods: 
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