Advice to Wool Gowers

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 3

Advice to Wool Gowers

In the interest of smaller growers, especially jiosrlhat -shearing is going. on, it will n^t b* out of; place to state_ : ,that' 1 dvvble cuts, by , '%■ shearer should* , in ' nqf «ase be allofred. -', Classing »i»d skirting •asht to be, done only by one;- who tkoroughlj^ nnderstands the business;. Last season, possibly aeceunt of the ligbt dip. it appMred as if many fl)ndea.vbred to make up for the Ucrhtness by folding, inside, the fleeces, .all the pieeesj locks: 4e. Sach a system cannot bo too strongly condemned, for it creates m want: of confidence in the minds of buyers, while no gain can pos-ibly accrue toibe ewner.as att-etiuioof sale pnrehas«ra «ow lltorontihlj open out the fleece, «nd^?er^r.Uiing.bid inside is fullyexposed toiriew.' Wools^got up in this manner an* frequently paased> by many buyers with««t being further examined, in consequence of the uttor^ impossibility of auriv^njgjat.an.'yeearato estimate of their loss- in- weight aHer .scouring, which is tktlnly/.truoi method of calculating the value of wooL Like other commodities itis (found that ;a- neat outside; appear-' •noo .eonsidorablj helps a sale. ' It is «ssonitiaVD|at a 'proper w©olpref a shomld bo availed. of to pack the wool with, as loosolfi-presfed-; bales are in abomination #vorj»here. and U is wpU known tK»t soutO4>f the/ largest buyers, hare strict injunctions to avoid themi In the course Ji stiipment, When being dumped, the foams of the. packs split front end ,to end, apfr' besides the probability of much of iho contents being lost during transit,: the «a«ightliness of CKeir appearanetf thereafter csin hardly Bo imagined. Inoon* trait to tbeVa pack, pressed by a regular woolpross. will on tho ether hand stasd stfj •mosHit; of: pressure without 1 beini' ditnipod^ and appear' at ii» iburney' s'ond' witU^t « stitch ■> having givon^^ way; an^ reMin a> sightrj -an appelran^e siVhen it leH the stttibk} ; One more suggestion in tfie'-'toarking of the bales. This should trfoW^wit&B fbwwl^plftte amd brush, tße^r^.^eSoriptidn; and number bai.g pUtetfd : sJn'.#i^ sideband end of tne bale in ktt#rrsnd figures of ?nbt-loss than three it.esMeaeii ;^By giving at ten ti en to these Uttlo matters of detail, a grower may^ rely ■potLliis woe! being well inspeotod at time 6f sije in r*nf market; and this) is of na littl* impor^anoe at all times, and eppeciallyin periods of depression like tho »rosent.-^N«pier, relegrapE.