Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year .. (1849)
United States. Patent Office · Washington : Office of Printers to House of Reps. · leaf 92
to those of four wethers, or five ewes. The reason of the difference in the number of sheep sheared in a day is, not only because the rams have larger bodies, are stronger, and have more wool, but the shearmen dare not tie their feet as they do those of the unresisting ewes. Experience has taught… … The sheep that have been shorn are allowed to go to the fields if the weather be fine, in order to feed during the day, and in the evening they return to the yard in front of the shearing house to pass the night, and if the weather be cold or cloudy they are sheltered within. Thus they are brought…
United States. Patent Office · Patents · Agriculture
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