| Show EXPERT MAKES PLEA FOR BETTER WOOL HANDLING HANDLIN nl by professor A CT extension husban 4 utah win not get full hii tion for the superior wod ed in the state until t more carefully prepared 7 ket kc t the production for of 0 q in utah i is s unquestionably methods of preparing it i for i a responsibility which tt the grower esti growers have that when they have wool carefully it made ra n once ence in the price they this may be true in iskiw isolar ik but generally speak speaking who are careful get than do careless growers r growing sh shearing earing and pre for market is usually behari e all of he wool rr kucej united states is ir icilla thus removing the zt i fleece skirting at the sha shea shao 1 o I ral it does docs not however i the need of careful ahm packing to preserve the desired by the manu preparation of fleeces c done more easily if nicea ne equipment quip ment were added chilt this i include shearing space flo loci elevated holding perls pens b i sheep off the shearing flow iiii i on which to grade fleeces ti a abate floor space for sak sac bailing fleeces cannot be prepa ld perly in commercial corla cona shearing contracts are witz insure insure careful shearing ai and of the fleeces fleece tiers should be arc do their work quickly and et e ly however sufficient na co should be provided L 3 should be paid for a quati I 1 i nd and not entirely for the nici n fleeces removed the larger i age of loose wool in utah pai crease fleece value even i I 1 L much of the loose wool n and clean grading is adva adm ad m the of fleeces li ket and united states y r standards can be lear learned nedr a into use by growers in a ta re short time the differences difference 1 between strictly comb combing ingard BE ing wools is from five to tia lt per pound yet they are pat pai gether ether by most growers grower sard and an on the barisof basi clothing tod vW the utah experiment alair ports that three year study f showed that the average sta combing or 22 inches and Is 19 25 per cent of the fleo clothing lengths le grading bli E would serve as a meats of mining grade length anav and rf the large per cent of the thel ua hii it would in turn show the B se selection 1 action and culling in lle fei ing practices of fine I 1 ers if standards of the thep F 30 preparing wo wool 0 1 for market up by the manufacture manufacturers isa atri be lit ed these standards can by all growers in a few yel S selection in breeding when gr grading iding by i er the united states staled be used in rn mixed axed herdson herds herd sOt to vantage of the grower groer ll 11 found they buff tol grades rades are changed in the process pr icess 01 ol and uniformity of f leece s r after grading has b been d 0 continued to P age COUNTY AGENTS NEWS continued from page four few years grading also reduces speculation in both production and ana marketing no agricultural commodity is more the prey of speculation than is wool at the present time grading of wool by keeping the fleece unbroken is merely the determining ter of fineness and length of the he majority of fibers within the fleeces this process demands care ful shearing and fleece teeing this is not net too much to jo do for a commodity especially when it is one that provides half the livestock income in utah utah produces 16 to 24 million pounds of wool from one and one half million to three million sheep |
