Show art tl T sheen ly electricity J at great falls mont which has become tho the largest wool shipping point in tho the northwest great difficulty hod has often been experienced in disposing within a given given time of the shearing of largo large shipment of shoo p this thi i s difficulty has haa now boon amply mot by uio the uso use ot of electricity the trolley current hia has been utilized to drive the shearing machine the installation is of the simplest possible description A street railway motor was taken from ono of tho the cars care and the armature pinion was replaced by a small pulley which was vaa belted to tho the main over head shaft so bo little power was needed that two rheostats had to be put in tho the circuit to keep the sheep down the foreman of the ehe she arois areis after only five minutes instruction st took full charge of the iho motor giving it all the necessary attention in oiling starting and stopping after the machines were started tho the maintaining of a uniform was easy and within half an hour the twenty machines wore were ripping off tho the fleeces at a rate which broko broke the record the poor was waa transmitted to the which resemble borso clippers clip pora in their operation through universal joints in three weeks sheep wore Bho isho arod arol by tho the ono one motor averaged nearly shoop per day of each machine wool record |