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Show Wool Handling. Shearing Draws Large Crowd Two hundred sheepmen, shearing corcral managers and sheep shearers shear-ers of southern Utah attended the shearing and wool handling demonstration demon-stration sponsored by the Utah Extension Ex-tension Service and the Branch Agricultural Ag-ricultural college Monday. Alma C. Esplln, extension sheep specialist, who conducted the demonstration, emphasized the importance of proper pro-per shearing and wool handing methods me-thods In Increasing the value of the wool clip and also the amount of marketable wool that can be produced. pro-duced. The sheep shearing and wool handling demonstration was sponsored spon-sored Jointly by the Utah extension service through County Agricultural Agent L. E. Tueller and B A O. "With the new core boring meth-atads meth-atads now being used for sampling at warehouses, value of wool can be increased substantially through proper pro-per shearing and handling," Mr. Esplln told the group. "Cleanliness, freedom from tag locks and use of more wool bags In shipping brease wool will result In additional profits." pro-fits." Lavar Taylor, Butte, Montana, president, North American Sheep Shearers union; Lane R. Bolter, Sidney. Montana, vice president, and Oscar Hansen, Provo,, president of Utah shearers' union, assisted professor pro-fessor Esplln in conducting the demonstration and urged proper shearing and proper handling of shrcp to prevent Injury as key to imUj increased profits. |