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Show 88tt88888 SUGGESTIONS FOR PREPARING FLEECE FOR MARKET : v 8 8 8 Shear the sheep when the wool Is abso'utely dry, never when there j: jj is any moisture in the fleece. The sheep should be shorn only on a smooth, dry surface, preferably a planed board flooring, never on the dirt. 8 Care should be taken to keep the fleece intact. Avoid second cuts, 8 jj which reduce the average length of the staple. j: Clip all locks from each fleece and pack separately. Never permit them to remain in the fleece. Fleeces should be prepared with the flesh side out, never the 8 8 weather side. 8 jj Fold, roll, or use fleece box for preparing the fleece. Tie each fleece separately. Never tie two fleeces together, nor pack and market untied wool. 8 Use only enough twine to tie fleece securely. 8 It Taper or hard glazed surface twine should be used. Never use sisal jj & nor binder twine. jj Never permit the fleece to come into contact with chaff, hay. dust, '. & nor any other foreign material. . 8 Place the tied fleeces in regulation wool sacks or cover them with a jj canvas or new burlap. jj Select a clean, dry place for storing the wool until sold. Never 8 permit the wool to lie upon the ground nor store it in a basement. 8 Keep the white nnd black wool separate. Never permit any portion 8 it of black wool to be mixed through the white. jj Divide the burry, seedy, cotted, dead, black, and gray fleeces from the clean, white, well-grown wool, and pack separately. Never pack .;. ? all grades together indiscriminately. 8 88:-8:8:-8:-8:a-:'8:-8-:-8:-8888:-8:-8-a-:-88:'8:'8aK8:a:-8 |