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    A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method...
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    materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...
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  • equal to ten reams Wool bale, a standard-sized and -weighted pack of classed wool Bale Zone in Oromia Region, Ethiopia Bale Mountains Bale Province, Ethiopia...
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    Houston, Texas (postcard, circa 1911) Cotton gin Cotton Spinning (textiles) Wool bale Turner, Joseph Addison (1865). The Cotton Planter's Manual: Being a Compilation...
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    (wool) Wool Wool bale Wool measurement Wool-sorter's disease, a historical name for anthrax Australian Wool Corporation; Australian Council of Wool Exporters...
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    sufficient wool to make a wool bale. In some primitive sheep (for example in many Shetlands), there is a natural break in the growth of the wool in spring...
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    of cement-bonded wood wool boards. When banded into a bale form, it is used as an archery backstop, comparable to how a straw bale would be used for the...
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    The finest bale of wool ever auctioned sold for a seasonal record of 269,000 Australian cents per kilogram during June 2008. This bale was produced...
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    Woolsack (category Wool)
    council should sit on a wool bale, now known as "The Woolsack", in order to symbolise the central nature and great importance of the wool trade to the economy...
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    remove the soiled wool from around the legs and anus, graded, and baled. Grading is done on quality as well as length of the fibres. Long wool fibres can be...
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    in place of wool, woolgrowers in the three main woolgrowing countries, led by Australia, voted to impose a 6 pence levy for each wool bale produced, with...
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    Gramodyog. Khadi & Village Industries Commission. 1985. p. 44. "Wool Scouring | Wool | Wool Bale". Scribd. Retrieved 2021-07-28. WO 2013050510, Reutelingsperger...
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  • "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (sometimes "Pick a Bale o' Cotton") is a traditional American folk song and work song first recorded by Texas inmates James "Iron...
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    Straw (redirect from Straw-bale)
    gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bale, or bundle, of straw tightly bound with twine, wire, or string. Straw bales may be square, rectangular...
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  • handling, assessment, sale, and transportation of wool bales from Victoria and beyond. As the wool industry declined, the original purpose of these buildings...
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    Shearing shed (redirect from Wool shed)
    pinning wool presses with inbuilt scales, which produce standard wool bales, have made a major contribution to shearing shed productivity. The wool producer...
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    England Wool Expo is staged to display wool fashions, handicrafts, demonstrations, shearing competitions, yard dog trials and demonstrations, a wool bale rolling...
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    wool from Merino sheep in Saxony, Germany was bringing the highest prices, the Forlonges went to Leipzig to study methods of sheep rearing and wool preparation...
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    droppings on the beams, corrugated iron, oil drum, kerosene tin, wool bale, brand on the wool bale" that created "a masterpiece of small portrait grouping"....
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    Carding (redirect from Wool carding)
    aligns the individual fibres to be parallel with each other. In preparing wool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing. The word...
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    Agricultural show but is focused on wool and sheep. The Hamilton Agricultural Show is normally held in November. The Big Wool Bales was an attraction (now demolished)...
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  • Loading scrap iron in to a cargo hold with sliding covers Positioning wool bales in a hold in 1933 into the Magdalene Vinnen (1921) The sliding hatch covers...
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  • Australian inland pastoral industry by carting goods and transporting wool bales by camel trains. They were commonly referred to as "Afghans", even though...
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  • Weight Toss (56 lbs weight over bar throw) – Winner Geoff Capes 15'6" Wool Bale Hoist (250 lbs) – Winner JP Sigmarsson 9'10.5" Sack Load (10 sacks each...
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    the Shoalhaven at Kurraducbidgee (modern-day Larbert). Transporting the wool bales using the cumbersome bullock drays of the time involved a long and arduous...
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    the deceased”. The following day, April 11, Morgan's body, wrapped in a wool-bale bag, was brought into Wangaratta and placed on public display in a police...
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    Cemetery in Melbourne. There is a `933 granite memorial (in the form of a wool bale) to both Eliza (referred to as "Mrs John Forlonge") and to "Mrs Janet...
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    with wings displayed on a wool bale over the motto + me spede, that is Christ me spede. The emblem was adopted from medieval wool merchant, William Browne...
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    though more so since this was the only Queensland store to employ large wool bale modules and fully utilise 1950s technology, and as the only woolstore...
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  • from the obsolete noun stapler meaning wool-stapler, a merchant trading in wool who would sort and class the wool according to quality, or else from the...
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