THE SHEEP-SHEARING MACHINE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1759, 6 February 1888, Page 2

THE SHEEP-SHEARING MACHINE

Two of Woheley'a sbeepibearlng maohlnao have been fitted np at the lialloiray station wnolsbed, dago, and art workedjby Messrs Brown and Sheppard, who have had expertanoe iv Australia. The "Daoatan Tunas" lays;— "The maohlne Itself li only abont 6in long and ii a wonderful little instrument, and oin bo used with as great facility upon any part of tba sbbep as the ordinary iheepihears t The wty m which the shearing Is done li truly atntzing, the wool rolling off m front of the outter like corn before a reaping cpaoMau The polnti are taken off evenly apd o'eaoly at one out, and from roand the horns and ears eyery-partiole of wool is removed ; and if second out* are not; altogether avoided the waste of wool, m thAt way is reduced to a fraction of that caused m hand shearing. Two ordinary veil shorn ewen were leleoted from the yard, and the maohi o run ever them ; the remit b»ing that 14$ >z and 15 j% reipeo lively w»s obtained. Savuritl of the *htacera left their places and saw thii dove, and were pecfeotly amaaad. One of them, with a laudable desire to mala* tain tbie reputation of hand shearing, sheared another owe. taking all the woql off *hioh h >poe«ib'o could — and taking (oo a long time m doin^ so. When fi^isb^ed he brought it down to the machine, deolaring that not mora than 2o? could be fcnken off but the tell*tale maohiue showed 6^oz aa the reault. What the gain m wool would be off a whole fl >ck when so much extra can ba obtained from one ewt. almost staggers one to th, Ink qf,