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Show If l PREPARATION AND If f SHIPPING OF WOOL Ik ! mt I Methods of the Boyer Bros. Company In Wyo- mK ? ming and Colorado Make Big Money jj l Over the Old Way. B 1 HTIUMIHIVT fll'IIINOH I "1.. hr- H i 14. II llPrHdmll foreman rur the k 1 f llo)er Itma Hhpei rotnmti ban i ti K I In BteomWwit HprlnK epvernl itn)n H i making nrratiKHtnpiitM for shipment H whlflh will licgln friiin thu pnlnl mmi I"" , August JMIi This pnmnirfy will ship - from twelvp In fifteen tlmuMihd from ' thin station Thp dry nennon Htnl cn B '( i sequent short rHUK' linn Riven trouble ' (o sheepmen Mori sheep have Urn K) out on Dm It'Milt forpnt thin ypnr Minn Bk: t ever berore nnd thr rnnae Ik aim Vf shorter than ever Im fitrc The Cnient W y office l trvlnjr t.i Ipsnen Hip Irullliln H ly nit In more rawrp TIip shipment H from Nlrnmlxint HprltiRR mil l larger H Ihnn In nn previous pnr mil thr) K i will begin tlip latter part of the H' I month, continuing until Hip latter H month, continuing until Hip last of H September H Ilo)er I Iron, romnah) within tlm H , last rnr linn acquired nliln reputn- K ' I tton for It experiment In prppnrlnjr H , wool for the market h) what la known H i " ,hp ""trnllnn nvntem nml It 1 promises to revolutionise wool condl Hon, giving thnuminiln, of dollar of additional profit to flockmanter In the VenJ. Thn shearing pen hao been hullt at Hitter Crppk V)o nml V1 ' ' have attracted vvldo attention of Bl sheepmen, collpKn professor. ntu Kl dent At agricultural college nml nil F i other Interested hi lmirolnic llo B dock condition. H Tlip rial Inception of thp threatened S revolution In wool conditions In due to J. i: Congrlfr of Itavvllns nml Knit Ht, Iakp Clt), whonp llfp in been itppnt t In ruining rlitrp In thn Wmi nml who H "i nt nnn tlnip wnn linmlllnK n Krrntrr r t ' numlir of lip than nn) othrr tnnn B !j In Amrrlrn He had ilotoJ much B ' ntiuly nml Mortal capita! In thp Im- H porlntlon of flun l.rnilln ntork nml w, had Rrratl) lmproPd hli floikn hut K hp wnn puulid to find Unit hln wool H tlll wnn rrnrdpd nn only Wcntrrn B nool nml did not Milt nrnrl) mt Rood H , i prlcpnnn Importpd wool. lionet him- B L "If lerinilMl) to thn tn.k of finding H out the rtmjn. H f, Ono iln)' A nun imtupd Itllth called H , K on him Iln una nn AitntruUnn wool H m exprrt uhii had Itrtn rnKnu-d h) tha H; df Canadian Koxrrnrnrnt U Intrntlvatn H ft. and rt port on Hip decline of the wool H X Indimtr) In that etiuutn Conrlff H JE rpcoitnUrd In Hitch n man that could H 1? icInp Information of alur nnd he per H -v jronall) hired him to lecture fvr a )ear H ft In Hip. Inlermnuntnln reulon Tlilanan H t In ItH, ami ho upent thn rur In Ida E ho, Wjomlnif, Montana nnd Orrjron j Armed with chartn, phntneraph and Hj dear, convincing data, hi UctUrea In H thn lclnlt) of er lnre ahrep pro H ; ductnir ncctlnn wero well nttendeil. und P. ' ; hla (-oniparlM)n of tondlllona In hln B nwn rounlrj with thnm lift found In E thn Wenlern Hlatra were m clearl) H and falrl) drawn that thn (trow em B ) wanted to be Miown an well an told BH All of thin Intereitid Hip llojrl B i Hron. nnd they commbulonrd Hitch to tfliU'vriiuTiiu me puiming ui a ipicai i Australian plienrlna lioutt at Hitter S Creak, Wjo, whlri la a part of their 2 j) range. The hoirne wan to be perfectly equipped with nvary machine nnd appliance ap-pliance to Incur, the handling ot thu iaheep and of the wool Juii m they am handled In Auntralla, The now nhear-lns nhear-lns nation wai built early ettotiKh thin jear to le ready for the shearing aoh In April. It la a milxlnntlal frame building, apnclouti ennueh to handle three1 thounnnd pheop dall) Ample rorrala outalde tnko inrn of uneep driven In from the rangea until their turn cornea for the awrntlnc iKrnr One man nnd a dog handle the nheep In the nweatlng pen nnd drive theni Into the catching pinn. There are no other hetpern no wmiiKleni or herdrrn run-H run-H x nlng the nlieep here nnd therp for S !j hour n da The tem of penning B fi ae the wagea of five or alx wran-SH wran-SH ' glern, nnd thn amount wived In thU M L wn) la apent on expert help nt Hie B S. aklrtlng tablea. l M li There are tvvent clipping maihlnen BHVHV V operntrd by n guaollnn engine, and SHVB J the operatom etand five feet apart. HVHv li Under the ajrtern arranged It la not BHVBV a remarkable for one man to ihrar two HVI hundred nheep In u day There I one HVHVff man nt the pena'who an flnlih n BHVHVj aheep In one and one-half minute, BVHVbf and hla ilrnlght tall) run two hun-,BHVHV hun-,BHVHV ti drcd and thirty head of aheep for nine BHVHV 4 hour. The fleece la picked from thn u VAVHmf floor and carried to the aklrtlng in-BVBV in-BVBV j tile. There nro nine of these The WAVHMd picker aorl hi part of the fleet n Into BVaH flrt nnd atcond grade, whloh aro SSHHjE packed und marked aeparateh The BBH clamer, a New Zealand expert, bundle i Bvf ,,' "c"'" from twent) ahearera Am BBSB claimed the) are deftly rolled up nnd IBBl' llir ii lot i the irer wml blnn ai .MinK t bngth 'iMnllty and inn Him of fiber Thp Imllng hi by prevMen that turn out Ktnndnrd Australian Imlon. fifty Inrhp bmg nnd twenty-ceen (ij twe ty-ppn Imhnn Inrtlitn JJacIi IwIp In nmrkpd with numiier, weight nnd elnrn That In nil therp In In Hip op. prntbm et in Hip entire field r wool Krowlng Hip nheepinen lmp utterly ut-terly (Unregarded Mich work nml hnvp imbmltted to the ramo rcnultn Hint romp to n tnnn who nhlpn a grpnt crop of potntopn or npplen Jtint nn hnrtmtrd Inrgp nmall good nnd poor Jn one mixed lot Thp wool handled thin aprlng nt Hitler Creek went dlrertl) to n ronnumer n rloth manufacturer n thing Hint hnn never before hnptietied to Atnerlinn wool Thp wool of elxt)-flip elxt)-flip thounnml nheep wna picked nort-rd nort-rd nnd bnled In niloli tondltlon nn American wool never before hnn left the nhenrlng pen during tha operation hundred of V If Horn mine from nil the grrnt nheep rtatea nnd from Canadn Tito United Hlnten depnrtmrnt of ngrlciilturp neni thrrp men Hip Cnnndlnn government nenl two rpprenrntntlvea, the Tpxn Agrlutllturnl rollegp aenl n profenuir Hip Unlvernlty of Wxmlhg wna rep-rerenled rep-rerenled bv tin prenldeltt Itn denn nnd n profennor and llllnol eent n profen-ror profen-ror The vvikI nhlpped from Hitter Creek I bringing from five to eight renin a pound more than If It had been handled In thn old wa |