LOCAL WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 8

LOCAL WOOL SALES.

. EDCCATr.VG GKOWEIIS, v . :.for. and against i ■ f.-irmers' should •; net ovcrJopkthe educative' l ad vantages of '. the system.; * Wlien, wool i 4 sent 'Home.! to, .'London-■■•■by a .small sheep farmer he is !■' told' What/price per pound his clip has ■ :gono at, gets his money,.aiid there is an end .of 'the' transaction. .He'.iiuiy. bo dis--1 .siitisjied ' Vvifh .'.'Jiis "i'eiuris, ri biit seldom, : jindped,'". docs,:'lio-hearwhit,.the .buyers' i; .opinion of tho'condition, ofcliis clip may, <• J)*".;' AU be; knoivs is thai . Ms", price was, 'it inay be, considerably beliiVthe average, aiid-.the v;hy and wherefore.'he has to hunt: out for himself.,^.".AYitli,the local sales conditions, are very different. -The ; clips-axe all .opened up in .the broker's stores,, and a! strolldown the .long alley- ; '.ways between-the' opened-iip";bales is an education an' obsei'vant man. He will receive'ias as i he could-desire-as' to. the difference proper sorting., and niai'keting will;'make to his pocket;. , • •; - .' • furthermore,.; the local; brokers are in individual . clients.; than;-ara .'the London ones,' and not infrequently;.go -out -of - their way to .give ;a;'bfowe¥,:yaluablo 'adrica as. to' the ■best--way', to? put'.-his :wool-up. At-'tho AVeliington. 'thV. cataloguing is much more-detailed than 4 at, tho big Home .'ones,, and the small-ihah ivhoisends in a bale; and. a" half of ;locks and -fills up' witli fleeces-has n liis' eni&s. b4ihg.;so, catalogued,lwhereas in. Lon-dqn.-tbe-bades would-' be-simply classed as loclu l '..iiiMlvtfi«'itfl««ces • tliiwtt: -jn. ' That some growers: still a; great deal to Icariiv-in --the'art'of''marketing i?as made evident by evcn-most'.cosual inspection of The. Maroh -sale .is: usually! regarded-, as a'sup- . ,pleni6ntary. cle™ ; up;:,'late''clip's coming fii from- the'ibackbloeksf at tho! best'of times! a're yefy.'jnixed at this ' stage'of' the ■season'. woolis .naturilly : heavy■■■ !ia- grease,: cotted 1 fleeces .are' not. iinconiinon, ,'and: biddy- (

biddy seed'much in evidence. The man wlio. 'can' get' his. wool, shorn ..before this weed: begins SMding; stands to put a' substantially ibiggeramount•.in his' pocket •'.than' , 'day' one of the best l»le$ oManib's wool opened.up, (i-Beautiful; sample,. was writ'teri the' brokers iii theirVpfeliffiharyVTaliiaiion' on ->acoSunt. I br.ifeVbahg.'sHghtly. 6eedy.' 'The writer called--in at -Messrs. Dalgety andCo.'s'- and found", 'the.'Sleveff i.iundred' : bales which that firm was offering ;heatlv opened and stacked.in' long rows,across the .top'floor of. the building. . The''firm's two auctioneers,, Messrs. Carrick, and 'O'Connor,' were completing,' which • the /brokers make on behalf.of'-their clients; Every, lot .is. carefully' inspected, and valued , by;'the."auctioneers themselves',' nrid if the biddings does not reach, their' figure the lot\ is pa&sed in, and either held .over to tiie next sale, or. 'sevenand the' colpnial'Speeiilatorsl'and-wool-scour-ers were-,'also" to' be found, about the wool stores in . the; morning, ''busily at work in linen over-ails, hauling out. the golden fleece, and assessing its.-value. The golden, fleece, when it l corisists.'mainly of bellies, locks,- skirtingsj'.-'and ■ cotted. fleeces - that drop on'-'the flObr'fr'ith;;a : thud; like'/indiarubber j. doos no t,- y-however, ■;:present an altogether picturesque spectacle. "". "' ; It-is interesting to bear the occasional* comments on': different; lots. One ' buyer .. pointed out' to,*the', writer a'n entry of;' nine bales qbsplutely unsorted; on which : the grower would'probably lose about ,£lO ; for: his ■ carelessness or ignorance. The . j .bulkrof,' the';clij)--iva.s splendid .light-Rom- : tnojift.wopl',": .it." IhoiclipMbuld. . easily l have bMn.-matle' uf> 1 intiCeight bale's ,of good wool and one,of bad.--: is it was,-h ;it ,-tvould.-.probably.;' be. Bought up by' a : -loral.'speculator and'r&lassed.- "' |

. : It ;wfljs..noticeaj}jf, yesterday that hardly: a- single/ shefp-farmier'' took'advantaga' of: the wool sale- to - come into: town and see the '.>i%"Kis;cbWgnment-compared '■ with the others that'were' offering,-or ,'to maKe' himself acqnainte<r"at'first-hand With the requirements'lof! the .;:bu'yers:'' In '-timer sheep-farmers -may : possibly discover thai quite as .miicKof. value can,.tteHearhed at •a: wool 'sale,.as ,at an: A. 'and P. show.