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The sediments were transformed into tectonic ironstones upon shearing and associated silicification.
Because white pine is very sensitive to time of shearing, small white pine should be given top priority in the shearing schedule.
If you see any sheep keds at shearing time this year, plan to treat the animals, preferably before lambing.
Treatment for sheep ked is easily applied and is often the most effective following spring shearing.
Shows introduced competitions in bush skills, such as wood-chopping, boxing, shearing, and horse-riding.
People breed sheep with the intention of shearing their wool, making clothing out of their skin, and eating their flesh.
He will see the early stages of wool production in shearing and wool classing at a sheep stud.
There is a sheep and ram saleyard, open days for many things, shearing championships, and cattle shows.
First there was that workaday stuff used as the skin for thousands of Outback shearing sheds.
Her husband Ian is manhandling sheep through wire fences for crutch shearing, ahead of lambing.
The shearing board should be kept free of locks and must be swept after each animal is shorn.
We understand that there is a gas leak and a possible shearing of an oil storage tank as well or a leak in a storage tank.
The faulty shearing machines are repaired, the broken cobbles are mended and the new by-pass built.
Baked contacts with host rocks indicate that metamorphism associated with intrusion predates shearing.
Consequently, the cost of shearing a sheep sometimes exceeds the price at which the wool can be sold.
The price of wool is still very low and it still hardly covers the cost of shearing the wool off a sheep's back.
There is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed.
The old shearing shed across the track continues to battle the ravages of time.
One great advance was the use of electricity in the shearing shed instead of the noisy motor.
Outside the museum is a model of a shearing shed from the colonial period with the blades for shearing and a wool press.
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With a crew of first-class shearers working in a shearing shed, it is not long until the floor is a sea of wool.
Nearly sixty thousand sheep are shorn annually in the shearing shed, a few minutes' walk from the hotel.
The Rose, with foam midway to the hawsepipe, went shearing alongside the barque within pistol shot.
Near by is a cornhouse and a small distillery, and the corrals for sheep shearing are not far off.
Wool is also removed from sheep by the periodic shearing, and in this case does not reach the fellmonger at all.
The gneisses appear to be due in many cases to the crushing and shearing of deep-seated igneous rocks, such as granite and gabbro.
Data are insufficient, however, to indicate the extent to which the anticlinal areas are really areas of maximum shearing.
It was no unusual occurrence for one wool clip to be detained on a remote station until the next year's shearing had commenced.
All the depth down that I'd fallen since I was shearing there at boree rushed into my mind at once.
On the morrow the hair was caked so fast about his neck that it could only be freed by shearing it.
Away from the noise of the shearing shed, how quiet and lovely it all seemed.
Thirty or forty years ago every station and every shearing shed had its singer, who knew some of the bush songs.
The grooves and lands are specifically engineered and machined with slightly rounded profiles to pleat the web without shearing.
The women lost a fleece or two from the next year's shearing, and the girls have one cow less to their dairy.
At Stonebeck Gate Farm there will be sheep dog trials, drystone walling and sheep shearing demonstrations.
Then it fell, shearing through the scales and flesh and vertebrae.
The grooves and lands are engineered and machined with slightly rounded profiles to pleat the web without shearing.
At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
Each segment was sheared at the approximate midpoint ensuring that the location was between two nodes to prevent any influence of nodes on shearing force.
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