Show THAT LIMEDIP WARNING OLAIi THAT IT WAS SENT OUT TO EXCUSE DISCRIMINATION First Heard of i and Demand to Know How About the Past Reference Refer-ence to n Government Pamphlet ML Plenumt Vlnli April y 1900 I Editor TrlhulcI I notice In I your chilly I of April 22rd a warning to woolgrow ers against tho usq of Hmo for Clipping etc In this warning which Is I published over thin signature of Hecht Uobminn Co anti ia they xiy on ho request of Mr Seth Mitchell of the Arncrkan Woolen company a dlMerJmlmiUon process Is inaugurated ujalnat IJniu and sulphur dipped wool Being I woolgrower myself and a subscriber sub-scriber to your pni or 1 think that you = ought to give us yf lo t other Hide a chanco to defend ourselves against such discrimination especially as Mr Chin ton your correspondent In this case ad units that from 40 to SOper cent of our wools would bo aiTcctetl afected oy such n pro ceeding J for one of the mnn hundred o thl many wool 1unl1irt growers of this State wish to lako an ox cppUon to this crusndo against our inter osts knowing thai the olnen or PI least the groat mnjoruy of them tool the snme as I do In this cast We know that the woolbuyiTH arc not In tho business for their health but for tho money there 1 is i In J and WP also Itnow that It Is J to their Interest to use nil ni means In their power to get our wool as cheap as thrv posuMblv 1g can and In my opinion this discrimina ton Is nothinG moro or Joss dicrimina other excuse to lower the price of wool If It IH not so then why dont iheso samo woolbuyers give UH i remedy for this evil I In other words why dour they toll us in ito mil wnen our sheep arc dipped ce dfrpcd Just what kind oC dip we should IIKO shnul 110 Instead of lime and sulphur I seems I In mo that would bo tho proper limp and tmp iho I right thing todo hut Intttead of that they wait over six motithr after the sheep are dipped and ihon I 1 hoy come out and tel us that lime Injured tho dyeing of tho wool conscxnidtitly they cannot pa 0 us as much as If I Wo had dipped them with something else THIS js A POOH EXCUSK hut I suppose they think It Is betel thnn none at nil If not then will those gentle Ilnth men of tho woolbuying l fraternity please furnish us credible proofs that their assertions as-sertions about this JlUoR olnJ aro actual facts and not mcro scarecrows 7 Vo are open lo convincing reasons If they will glvo them to us In such n way that we cannot doubt their t authority < ir authorities au-thorities hut as long as wo have authoritative authori-tative proof on our side lint limo and sulphur dip when properly made and applied ap-plied correctly Is positively not Injurious to the wool and besides that It IH a most effective scab eradlcalor we have the right to doubt tholr assertions about oil sorts of Injuries to wool that they do not prove I those Injuries of lime and sulphur are facts lot them Rive us the proper substitutes It scorns to me that prOIel would be as much to their Interest ns lo ours If not then will they Please state what they Intend to do with such wools thut are so Injured or better still tell us what they have done with It In tho past And by the way It would bo Interesting S lo the woolgrowers to know about how much money thc buyers have mndo In Iho past and how much they are making now by Inventing such scarecrow excuses as lhat To those Interested In thin question and all woolgrowers ought to be I would earnestly recommend the careful study of I = tho Government bulletin entitled Sheep Scab prepared by Dr Salmon of the Bureau of Animal Industry They will find plenty of proof for tho stand that I have taken In that and besides a great deal of other Information llmt J have not space to mention JOHN If SEEJY |