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Do I look different

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wearing a wool sweater?

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Maybe you've got a cap
or mittens made of wool.

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Do you know where
wool comes from?

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It comes from sheep.

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Want to see how they get wool
off the sheep

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and into your sweater?

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Let's go.

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The hair of the sheep

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is what gets turned into yarn

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all summer, fall,
and winter.

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The sheep
grow their wooly coats.

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Then in the spring
they're given a hair cut.

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That's called shearing.

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The people who are doing
the shearing, all professionals,

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that is
their job is to shear sheep.

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They travel around to wherever
the flocks are,

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and they shear the sheep.

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have you ever been
to a barbershop

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or beauty salon
to have your hair cut?

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Well, you might say these
folks are sheep farmers.

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Several farmers

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bring their sheep together
to be shorn.

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It's kind of
like a special event.

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The shearing doesn't hurt
the sheep.

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As I said, it's like a haircut.

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[♪♪♪]

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This is Jeff Berryhill.

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He and his sister Jane are good
professional sheep shearers.

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That is.

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Their job is to shear sheep.

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Boys and girls.

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Remember that the sheep is not
a pet, the sheep is livestock

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and they help make life better
for all of us

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by providing us wool

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See,

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A sheep is only handled
approximately

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10 minutes
during his life on the farm.

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Out of that eight years,

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only about ten or 15 minutes,
do you actually touch the sheep.

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You're talking about the
ten or 15 minutes it takes

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to shear the sheep.

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The few minutes it takes
per year to shear it and

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to give it worm medicine
or to help it have a lamb

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or whatever reason you
know, that you had to touch it

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Oh, you know, a lot of people
would hold their pet dog or pet

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cat for 10 minutes at a time.

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So it's

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okay. Now.

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We're going to let you shear
a sheep how about it?

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Let's try that out

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Okay.

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My left foot is
right under her front shoulder,

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keeping her supported,
keeping her feet off the ground.

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Do I replace my left foot
where yours is?

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Right where mine is.

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Okay.

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My right foot is right

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back here between her legs
to keep her balanced.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I think we're about set now.

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Now you need, let's to let
the sheep roll into you

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Okay. Like this okay?

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Yeah. Here's the clippers

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You want to slide them
under the wool

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Slide it under the wool.

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Start back here on the skin
and just

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carefully through there.

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don't try to.

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push the wool out of your way

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Just hold there. Take you a
practice stroke on clean skin.

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so you just feel it

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Press down into the skin.
Ah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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You want it to slide
along like a ski, right?

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Now, you got it.

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Quite smooth.

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I've been shearing
for about 20 years.

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It takes the average shearer
about three years

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to really get good at shearing.

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So it's something
you just want to practice

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and work it and don't give up on

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practice, practice,
practice, practice.

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Well, maybe with

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Enough practice.

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I'll become a sheep shearer.

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Is that the right name for it?

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That would be a shearer.

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A sheep shearer

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After the wool is shorn

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from the sheep, it's
dirty, so it gets washed,

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then dyed,

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then smoothed out with a process
called carding

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It's kind of like
when you comb your hair.

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Now we're ready to make yarn.

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How? Let's find out.

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This is called a spinning wheel.

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Yes, you can see that

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one part of it just goes around
and around like that.

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And it works from a pedal.

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How do you use this spinning
wheel to make yarn from this?

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All right.

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First we start spinning -- we
already have some yarn on here,

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so we'll attach the new wool

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to the

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the old, the yarn

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that's already on there.

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And wool sticks to itself
very easily.

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If you ever look at wool
under a microscope,

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you'll see
lots of tiny little scales

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and those scales
make the pieces of wool

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stick together
so you can pull it apart. Yes.

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And then it just goes right back
together.

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You can control how thick
a piece of yarn

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you want by the amount
that you feed into this.

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Exactly. Yes, yes, yes.

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You let it.

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If you want real thick
like that.

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I let it go on and sometimes
it needs a little help.

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And then I pull it out.

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And we're still finding
occasional pieces

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of matter from the farm.

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There was a little hay

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and then

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we just keep on

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until we have the bobbin full

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And this is why we call it
two reasons.

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We call it spinning Wheel.

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First, it has spinning wheels,
and the wheels are helping us

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to make yarn
by spinning the yarn around

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this sort of spindle
spindle there. Yes.

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And it comes out looking like
this when the spindle's full

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Yes, We make it into a skein
and we're ready to knit.

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We've had a great,

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wonderful,
very interesting lesson

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on what happens to sheep's wool
once the sheep are shared,

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it ends up to something
we can all live better with.

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It makes life more comfortable
for us so we can say

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thanks to the sheep and this
very special thanks

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to the Remsteads

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who had us on their sheep
farm today to tell us

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how the yarn is made
and where it comes from.

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Thank
you very much, Mr. Remstead