Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-22


colony makes laws for them There
are regular blank contracts for smear
lra sheep. having been agreed upon by
sheageIs aul sQuat'ers, and these, as
rule are ugidiy lived az 30 so lohs
sgo tbaIe was strike u ihe sheayefs
OF Queensland because the squatttfs
slaInfel they had the IGN, 10 employ
rou.uLiou men II they Wished. ne
strike was declared al the beginning OF
the shearing season. and he country
WAS patrolitd hy the union members on
horseback. armed with Tifes ana re-
yclvre. &c Keep out the non 'unlonlsts'
Many WOO, sheds we're burned but the
government sent out police and satlihg
guns u escort the non-union laborefs
10 their WoIk. and thus broke up me
suke. although 1t cost more than N''
g01GG0 to do So
MAKE S. A DAY.
The shearers make goOd wages. They
are paid about cents sheep, ana
good man can shear d hundted ddy,
81 that the average wares are about 10
uay duuns shedrinB tlme, ne smear
ING season iastS lof nlnt months. ll'De'
gins early m the year Ia Queensland
Nher- II Is warm, ana eNttnds NON
Mere south from station 10 station uhtil
south Aubtrada Is reached, ana lheh
stll later H. rdsminia.
Every station has its shearing sned'
with Lerf0Cks in which the sheaItfs
air 10 seen They furnish theif own
food, buying II Of the squatter al whole
! sale prIcts. Each gang OF shcdIels has
a cook. and, as a rule, they I'VE very
we'll
In the past many of the shearers were
| drunknrus. They would w0rk al
station until they had finished. ana then
take their WAGES 10 the nearest pubic
! house Oh saloon ana there consume
| them IL liquor. Sometimes, so 1 am
! told. they would hand their money over
10 the landlord and tell him 20 Keep an
account and put them out when the
money was done, which agreement was
promptly carried out on the part OF the
| latter. To-day many OF these men are
frugal and temperate, They shear TOT
n few years. getting all the way from
5000 TO 500 or more a season, ana tnen
invest their savings in stock of their
own.
sHEARING SHEEP BY MACHlN-
cry.
At present there are millions OF sheep
shorn every year by machinery. The
sheep-shearing machines are run by
steam compressed air and electricity
The force Is communicated, through a
flexible tube like that OF the dentist Tor
drilling out teeth to clippers like those
used by the BARRIERS in cutting your
hair. The clippers consist Of little knives
which move backward and forward
over each other like those Of moving
machine. They go at the rate Of 4,OCO
! movements per minute, cutting through
tha wool as hot knife cuts through
butter and taking II off more smoothly
ana cladnly than by hand, | have seen
sheep shorn In this way so that their
skins were as smooth as the nap of line
cloth. the sheep running away clad In
a velvety coat Of soft white. The man
ayers tell me that the machines save
from a quarter to a half pound OF WOOL
pet sheer. and that there is less danger
of cllping the skin than In hand shear
i'm The time Of shearing Is about the
same as by hand, the average number
shorn being little more than 100 per
day. Some men can shear more than
100 per day by hand. The record OF the
hest shearer is that OF Jack Howe, who
has cut the wool from 32l sheep in one
day with pair Of ordinary hand
shears.
HOW WOOL rs SHIPPED.
After the wool is shorn it Is sorted
and packed. The different parts are
nut in different bundles which are
sewed up In bags and are then ready
for shipment to the markets. On some
stations the wool Is baled in packages
OF 800 pounds.
Many of the stations are miles from
the railroads. and in such cases tbs
wool has to be carried there on carts
. drawn by oxen. Some carts will carry
/ Ten tons a yoke Of eight or ten oXer
heine used TO draw them. The ordinary
freight charge is Is cents per ton pei
mile. which is quite in contrast viii
the freights from the Australian ports
IN Chrome. where ton is carried ,OO
miles or more for s.. The freights arr
even higher than this is certain part
NJ southern and western Australia
whore camels are used to bring out IN
wool The camels are brought from
Arabia and India, and some OF then
are excellent | am told that n slngl
| camel viii carry two bales OF wool, an
hat they are used for all sorts o
} | freighting.
THE TERRIBLE RABBIT,
The squatter never has the night
mare. If he Is drunk or has cate
loo much he Is liable to have the rab
, bIt-mare. II he gets the deliriur
, tremens he sees rabbits rather ina
, snakes, and rabbits are, In fact IN
terror OF every one. They are foun
> by The tens OF millions all over IN