| Show AMERICAN WOOL NERDS BE BETTER r rl I 1 A preliminary report 0 of wa afa investigation into the methods of marketing Amerton row being conducted conducts d bt b te I 1 department indicates ighut from 10 to 20 pey percent cent of the value of the crop is lost annually through the neglect kotrc lew simple measures i un udder der existing condition ab when rhen america and australian Austral laA wools lie side by side aide in the warehouse the poor haf handling idling ot of american wools is so noticeable that the price is inevitably affected this thi s handicap would be removed to a great extent if all growers would agree to do four things sack ewe lamb and buck fleeces in separate sacks shear black sheep separately and keep the fleeces separate tie the fleeces with paper twine which does not achot adhere to 0 o tile the wool remove remone the tags or dung lock locka 3 and put them in separate se e acks marked to show their contents figures es prepared by the pu I 1 eau of statistics agricultural forecasts and based on re ports from growers who sheared in 1913 a total of 2005 20 sheep eh show ow t that h at at tho the resent time about one halt half of the flock owners sack ewe lamb iamb and buck wool separately about 60 per cent separate the black fleeces and tie with paper twine and less than one halt half put tags in separate sacks buying concerns can and may however allow their rep more latitude in discriminating between indi bidual clips but even should they do so prices could be altered only for clips of sufficient size to yield around pounds of each grade contained obtained Onta ined e fifty nine cases were re in which dockage for tags was waa made upon the whole clip although ane tags ha bad d been separately seara tely sacked tho the it emedy the toi s declare to Is to raise the of a locality by an and an tg w 7 t q Y 1 I 1 ig i no faly 00 ladled waar ali iri 4 1 l t i 1 it ac ifo ka I 1 1 the growers the he borac tt tto by ahmar th mar ker av present receive much it if anat compensation to foi sain so doing A AB n ather I 1 lines iti it rests with aa i 1 andl A to tb tonne biting chete catam it 11 es up to stand a ard rd chrit bi bo ot coall to all f j 3 1 in the opinion pf af the incesti gators the retorts already mentioned would be sufficient lelent for the present to put american wool in a different ferent lights lightf lateri later it toy be advisable to adopt the methods cf 1 skirting 11 or re removing flom aiom the fleece the wool of i lie he logo legs and belly and grading 1 before sacking but this I 1 Is a not urged now 11 |
