OUR YORKSHIRE LETTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 3

OUR YORKSHIRE LETTER.

'■ :. ' ' ■. •' ♦;■■. ——— : ' 'oTiivi •r WHAT IS CEOSSBRED v ■CFBOM OUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.). Xr. :..■■" Bradford, llarch 5, 1909. Nobody need be told at thie time of, n (lay that there is a great Variety of qualiti in wool, and that the diversified needs of man facfurers can easily be supplied. . .In this r epect there is a great change, old wool me in particular delighting to speak of those da' when hardly a bale of. colonial ■ crossbred w to be met with in any series of London sale But such in no senso obtains to-day, for tl world's production of wool is about evenly di tnbuted between merinos and crossbreds. Th shows at once what a great and importai change has come over the character, of. wo< f'Jf d t mi } the ' great outlet that h rfri 0 ? i. for * rozen mutton, there is n likelihood whatever of either -Australasia o the Argentine going back to breeding exch •dSiS; ffl in ° sleep - ? eith ? v the Trad desire such a course of act on, for, with th increaemg supplies o£ crosabred wool, equall fnr tK ' Wortant an outlet has,been foun for the goods manufactured from these wool, iionever, before proceeding to deal with th htZli wha l ? wool liable figures, showing: the imports for th ,seasonin million lbs.%f ; clean^wool : -

' ■'■ -' CLASSIFICATION OF WOOLS ' ' " pee OH sew : ■■■"■„■;■:■■ ; '. .BEADFOED,: TOPS ' : '• CODBSE OP PRICES. ■■-

T^fTr te<? A 05 *, P"Pwtion o lotal. Merino, bred, crossbred. g= :"1 £ Si Si-- 4 Sffi g» 2*8 255 50.7 | S: :| g » gj S :; :. 8 a. S Sj 553 281 272 49.2 |SS S» 317 279 4G8 " "" «6 355 291 «0 " 1908 C32 337 295 40 7

<••. a s a S •§ ■§ i \ . (=1 ft PH (i) T- , , d. d. d d. Lincoln hogs 9 9 9 9 Lincoln wethers 73 ni 73, « Yorkshire hogs (best) iof 10J 10! 10? Yorkshire wethers (best) ... s\ 8} fi! 81 North ' hogs 12 v, 1S 1 ,5* North wethers ... . " 101 ot wi \ti Irish hop, super. J j; ], 0 | }J( }g }» Ir;sh wethers, super 10j w ! ij! wl Kent wothers nt «? ~? Half bred hogs (Mid. Conn" * ' 9i ' 9 * Hatred -wethers -(Mid: ■ 1 ° i 10J J0J ::: -^^^3 Southdown ewes i" g* g* H* {» Pick Shropshire hog 3 2 12 2 2 £><* Shropshire wethers ... 11J uj jji }f, Wi tshiro Down tegs j 2 i 12i 12? 124 Wiltshire Down ewes ... ... 12 12 ' 1? ?? Eastern Counties Down, tegs 11J ;nj ,m ; Ju Eastern Counties Down ewes 11 11 11 11 Cheviot hogs, super. ... . n 11 .,; : i< Scotch Blackface ... " H J i. " Turkey average mohair, ." 151 151 151 «i Cape firsts.mohar •: .... . it ,,, i?f W 1 70's colonial tops " 25* ' IP 1$ 6i's,coloniBl tops ... ti'60'sicolonial tops, , super. ■:•)■*' nV ?li•«'< 5S's;colonial tops!' „. . " 18i ■ fo 50'seolonial tops : . , ' if, 1? jli- iri «'fcolonial tops, ... .131 il■■}$* W iO'l colonial tops . m' n? Jt it 36's colonial tops ..... in! 11* m'1,1 32> colonial tops „; 0' 0 1 J