AMERICAN WOOL CLIP BADLY HANDLED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 10

AMERICAN WOOL CLIP BADLY HANDLED

Americans havo a good deal to'foatn from-their distant' neighbours in Aimtraha, says a San Francisco correspondent. That from JO to 20 per cent, ot the value of the American wool erop is lost, annually through the neglect a lew siniplo measures k ■•mnoimewl bv t ie Department of Agrimittura '«f ti e United States Govornnioiit rn n pre ]j. m , inary report of its investigation into the:present methods.of ■itturketius waai, According to the report, when Austra- , 1 and American wools afo placed sidt f±l , !? rCSUIt ? PGO-f balullitii; oi the latter product are so notieeal>!< that its price is adversely affected : iifturos, prepared by Hie bureau o statistics, says th'o riSp&rt, "show feat. the present time about iiaif of tbliock owners sack ewe li'. nib bue] wool separately, about €0 per cent, sea arate the black fleeeiis and tie wit] paper twine, and less tllaj) onp-haK mil ill separate sacks. It is pofeW out, however, that the eorrespolKlent l who took the trouble to answer the- 'inquiries of the investigators, and iWm whoso replies these statistics compiled presumably represent tlio progressive element in tfc iiuJn.strv and that if it were possible to obtain the facts fiom evorv Wool ivi the country the p.cree'ntfoss -ot'tfiosfr itsing the improved meibods wouM | iA found to be much lowsr. , the rem-

edy, the investigators. deickre, "is to raise the reputation of a totality" by an agreement anions; the growers not to permit any poorly haurliH wool to leave ine community," 'lite report of the Govefhiiient bureau conclusively proves thai (he American wool clip, when placed in wmwtitioia with that of Australia, auffersd inrliflereilt. handling. ! .There has never existed a.nv doi|bt among American manufacturers ''that Id* 1 W ' oo M s ' r Wsl in t&fi