Show The Wool Industry an So Africa E S tY F S s sr s1 sd r d 1 z Un fI mood tI a U loom ili l Iola a 11 0 The TIlo Union of So Sooth th Africa Is rightly classed among South th the great wool pro- pro producing Climatic countries f the world Cli- Cli matte matic conditions are admirably adapted to the tho bre ing and raising of tune the Merino type typo lot of sheep heep with a strong trong staple wool suitable A large part of t Is country i 13 Is suit suit- able only for the tho raising of sheep and the lin iwa-a-A iwa t Is maltIng making pro pro- and Improve intelli ent efforts to Im- Im prove both oth the she and the manner of l preparing the w of 01 for fOl m market Jackals being a trong tron menace menaco In South Africa time longtime Government loans are arc PA I-PA Av n i extended to sheep owners fur for the erection of proof ackal-proof fenc- fenc Ing fencIng Government veep leep experts ore are maintained perma In districts so that tell t services and andI I advice may be ass ed at a nominal fee fcc led The Tho mutton slee shee of South Africa Capen Is the tailed fat-tailed hla l headed Cape Cape- Cape a n non sheep As no cross cross- crossbreeding breeding for mutton mutton lambs is done clone the wools are aro pure purely Merino In char char- character acter 1 Progress in t ibis this ls south African In- In In Industry Is Js particularly ly Iy noticeable In Inthe the n L harvesting De Dc Ite the tho A fact a- a at that Kamr labor can I secured t i w at the equivalent of or 3 American per pel month there thero Is a rend towards the modern shearing machine as against i the he ft c-ft l 1 A tT old age hand blades which even evenIn In America have t been discarded by many ninny otherwise otherwise sive sivo entirely l jA wool raisers j readIly A study of this tills fa t however Or read read- ily reveals the rca lea rca rca-ipri n 11 for It ft While there is i a n a first COSO cos t Ac for the machine the unskilled black lack himself to Its Use much mo readily than to the hand blades an soon does a ro- ro tho the remarkably smooth j jo or of shearing wIth machine Once adapted to t o e uso use of the ma- ma ma chine machine Its economic value is w demon demon- II I 1 Four of o oa a Kaffir ch Ir lt II tho the materially greater num- num num ber number of sleep sheep sl cep shorn dally daily tho the better market of ot tho the wool tho the fewer fower maimed and not least important Im- Im Important Im Important the tho additional 6 5 to 12 more wool woo obtained with tho the machine woolI over and above bovo tho the amount of ot wool I secured w with th tho the hand blades As a e tho the machino machine resolves Itself Into a small investment In with certain and an big returns I Steadily an tho science of or wool mar wool mar In Africa Is fast ap- ap approaching ap tho ho he scientific efficiency of the Austral Australian Australian an marketing plan which Is without doubt tho the most practical and efficient in toda today todar r Considering that the tho four fOUl Provinces Natal Transvaal Orange Free State and Cape Capo Province which comprise tho Union of South Africa have havo OOOO square miles less of territory than Oregon Washington Idaho itis Montana and all Wyoming combined it is to O note noto that they contain two and one ono naif times as many sheep as our five s states ales named This alone alone makes that country n a strong stron contender for future futuro leader leader- leadership leadership ship shin in the tho th wool Industry It Is interesting Inter Inter- esting to not 5 however er that the great bulk Junt duoto of foreign t progressiveness Is duo to American Initiative American im- im implements Im Implements and aniL machinery and Ameri AmerI- AmerIcan American American can The South African wool industry holds true truo to this thia In American that Americana American methods and Ameri Ameri- American can are destined to take a large curd Imp Important place in the eco eco- economic economic eco economic re of tho Uto far tal distant l UnIon of or Soot SO Africa Aviles |