The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-04-13
BY Frank p. Sibley in Boston Globe

Amherst. April 6.-Spring sports
began here today at the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College with
sheep shearing and judging tourna-
ment which was enjoyed by all, with
the possible exception of one contral-
TO sheep with vox humana stop
Sheer he. as the case may have been
protested long after every other sheep
had accepted the inevitable.
Visitors to the college sports gain
ed great deal of information CON
corning the Intermediary steps be-
tween the gambolling lamb OF poetry
and the necessary mutton chops and
the tweed sutings of commerce. MANY
of them learned for the first time the
trte outline of a sheep.
The sheen is one of the smaller
runinants. To most people It is best
known either as dirtv gray animal.
something like a large. small-legged
blackboard eraser. marring the beauty
of sylvan scenes. or else as in animal
which has apparently been killed when
at full gallon and then hung no in
very much stretched-out attitude. dis
PLAYING its whole interior
The sheep wears its wooden under
wear for an overcoat. 1t is also very
susceptible: il can be tricked by the
sight of a few snowstorms into pro-
ducinp far more wool than it can toll
crate in the following Spring Man
takes ingenious advantage of this
trait of the innocent animal and pre-
tends to help it out by relieving it
Of it's extra weight of wool in the
Spring time. hoping TO sell the fiber.
when washed and decreased to the
manufacturers of wooden cloth. Some
times. as in the present year. man
finds after getting his wool that there
is no market for wool What happens
then can he learned only in business
college Apgie does not pursue the
subject so far as that.
Steering Sheep Is Not Simple.
Todav's tournament was concerned
with shearinp the sheep which isn't
the simplest thing in the world. and
with Judging sheen The second con-
test is less spectacular than the first.
but is even more important from the
point of view of the sheepist For I'M
less one iudgeS we'll when huvirp he
will have the less occasion for skill in
shearing
Two "pens'-which means teams of
four heep each-were no for Judging
in tOdav's tournament One was pen
of ShropshireS and the other pen of
Southdowre Thew can be told apart.
even after Mr. Smith. the Scotch sheD-
herd has trimmed rD the Shrops
artistica1Iv for exhibition DrrnoseS.
n &. al,
has LONGER rappeder wool than the
Down When trimmed to symmetry.
however. the only wav for the lavman
to distinguish them is BY the black
noses and feet One breeds nose is
black and the others isn't The gray
nosed sheen don't bury their ewes so
deeply in their wool. either. and as a
consequence look little more inn
beetle than the others.
The sheen. protesting and exChano-
inc comments from one pen to the
other, were WAITING in the "arera" on
the COLLEGE grounds this morning at
owher the conference Onened Agri-
cultural COLLEGE, students placed two
pens pivir0 written reasons for their
choices. ard bows from the secondary
schools placed the same pens:
proup Of farnerS who have become
sheepsters-there are 1s 600 sheen in
Massa Chus cttS-had a chance to pick
one Den
Then camc the Shcaring contests
Three nrOfcssiora Is ,ren who sheer
other thar their own sheen habitua1lv
entered the first class. two students
followed them. and there were two
contests with Shearinp machines Tn
the afterrOon there was = sDerial con-
test with enccd co"rtiro 90 ner cent.
II had this cheerful provision: "Anv
contestant showing more than 10 large
cuts On HE sheen viii he diso"alifed.
Real Show the Rarher Shop
The irdoir" j. not SneCta crrlar Tive
real show for the outsider is the
sheco's harbe- Shop The conteStort
receives his sheen which doesn't like
hit heirr helped IN on 10 tho shenr-
inc pl"tforr1 Standing behind the
sheen he tales IL around the waist.
lifts II into the ny with its feet awav
from him and SITS down. sheen and
all the sheen so to sneak ~ his Lap
Of course the sheen really sits on
the floor, and it is so aStonished to
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