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Show I SHEARING SEASON COMES TO A CLOSE TWENTY-THOUSAND HEAD WERE CLIPPED AT MINERSVILLE Sheep shearing at the Beaver County corrals was finished last week. The two sei nes of greatest activity were at the Beaver County shearing plant at the Williams cor rals near Minersville, and at the Morris corrals at Newhouse. At the Williams corrals, twenty men were employed and twenty-seven thousand head of sheep were clipped. The loading points for tho wool of the county are at Milford, Newhouse, Reed and Laho, with the most bags shipped from Milford. A large percentage of the people know little of the process of j sheep shearing and scarcely w.tuld one realize that an average of two thousand grown sheep were shorn each day of their winter's protection at the Minersville corrals. Gasoline engines furnish the motive power; the wool goes through windows into the big shipping bags; is quickly dispatched dis-patched and on its way to the wool markets. The several roads leading to the sheep camps were in fine shape for the traffic incident to the shearing season. Sheep looked to be in better condition con-dition that the few severe months would warrant Few ticks were reported, re-ported, but the sheep belied their appearance by their weakness from lack of good grazing. |