Jean Haines, To skirt your fleeces, lay out each flat on a large surface, keeping the shape as in a sheepskin mat. Using fingers (as opposed to whole fistfulls) take off all dags around the crutch, go around the fleece taking off all hairy pieces on the legs, all urine stain on the belly part,take off all cotted (felted) wool on the cheeks & neck wool that has a lot of vegetable matter in it. Finally, take off any wool that is less than about 3" long then roll up the fleece from tail to head (or vice versa- doesn't much matter) with the cut side out then you can stack each on top of others & the fleeces will stay seperate even if tightly packed in a wool press. Use your skirtings around your fruit trees or garden as mulch. Hope this helps. Lorrie (Australia) To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
