THE WOOL SUPPLY OF RUSSIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1584, 14 June 1887, Page 4

THE WOOL SUPPLY OF RUSSIA

There are about 11,900,000 Bheep In theOauoaßUß, and their wool la espec ally adantsd for makicg carpets ena ooyerletß, irad* it Is Bald to be of better quality than that which comes from the Cape or Mexico. Ab the demand for this kind of vooltanbeen brisk during the part few years, foreign and French houses tried to Import It from the Caucasus, but they met with great obstacles, as the orders ■«&»■««=*? buy up the wool direct from the breeders Jn the Caucasus, einco the nooks ara too"; the properly cf large proprielow, but this purpoße the exporter would require to have a depot m Tifl », *here wool could be sorted and packed. By sorting " one must not understand that it Is to De eorted according to quality, which 1b the Bame all over the Caucasus and Ablb Minor, but according to condition, slno-i the shrinkage runs from 40 to 75 per cent. It is advisable to buy the wool ready packed from the Tiflia morobants, since, m a role, they do not understand shrink■oe On that acoount the business ought to be a profitable one for a wide-awake buyer, since light wools can be bought at the same prlo? as the heavy .The time •pent In bringing large quantities Into email parcels would be well •pant, the profit depending not on the low prices or the quantities, but on the sorting. In the year 1884 a parcel of wool was sent from the Caucasus to New York, and fetched there from 11 to 19 cents per lb, whereas It oould have been booght all round In the Oaucaius for 4f oentß.