WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1925, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

HANDSOME WOOL CHEQUES. (Special to “Guardian”.) WEI.LIXGTO.N. December 30. On Monday last the Wellington wool-brokers distributed the cheques for the wool sold at the sale a fortnight previously. At the sale the offerings comprised 35,000 halos and ahoiit So per cent of tin’s was sold, that is about 30,000 hales changes hands. Taking the average value at L'3o per halo, it is probably more, then the wool-brokers have distributed fully 0000,000. and this money must have a fertilizing effect on general trade. That the motor ear dealers will get a good cut at the money seems tolerably certain and tin- pity is that the most of it is going to the United States for the money is being spent on American cars. The more prudent wool growers are, of course, using the* money to the host advantage, and no doubt many mortgages and overdrafts and advances and chattel securities will he repaid. And the monev so repaid will he available for investment ill other directions, and general trade must hcnclit. It; is difficult to say what are the prospects for the .’January sales. The Bradford toil market eased considerably during the past month and this may be reflected in the values. Then again the economic conditions in Franco arc causing concern and that means that French buyers will operate cautiously and greatly restrict their purchases, and with the new developments in respect to Germany and the continued occupation of the Cologne zone there may be some check to German operations in the wool market. However wool values are high and a drop of ’id to 3d per lb while regrettable will not affect wool growers to any extent. The statistical position is a sound one, and that will always prove a factor in maintaining values. HAIR IX WOOL. The controversy as to the best rams to he used to do away with the hair in wool is being continued through the newspapers here. Mr M. IT Murphy of Pntoa contends that the production of hair fibre is merely a matter of breeding, and no doubt the I net that, the Lincoln ewe was the foundation of the majority of the Romney Hocks of this country, and the cross breeding lias brought out the hairy lips, and they have remained in many Hocks, and will remain fill every breeder of sheep culls with tin* view ol getting ill these tins. When you come to consider the vast number of men who have charge of sheep who do mil take the slightest notice of irregularities in wool, it will lie hundreds of years before this is accomplished, and it never will lie if you are continually crossing a coarse wuolod sheep with a medium one like the Romney, lie goes on to sav„ “Can Mr Pearce recommend the Lincoln as a pure breed in competition with the Romney on all classes of country, lie knows that he cannot, 'fake the experience of the East Coast of the North Island. I knew one llock which used to lose l.").000 hogegls a year when tiley were breeding Lincolns, To-day. with the Romneys, they do not lose I ..-TOO. I am quite convinced that it would he a great, mistake ■;<> use the Lincoln on the Romney to eradicate the hair, as I am sure that it would only make the wool worse, mid also that it is better to have a live I’miiey in your, paddock than a skin in your shed. I am quite convinced that it is careless breeding that has brought this about, ami the only way that you will eradicate it is by heavy eii'h’iig, keeping your breed pure, and, above all, don t run Irom one breed to another, as you will never get an even lloeco. .Mendel tells you that you will get 12-*> tier cent, ol the progeny like the parciils of pure breeds. 25 per cent taking a Ret the mill bee. 25 i m, ‘ imp alter the leh.cr. and Ihr ol her “ • PCI edit will be any thing between the two. I am not go iug to tell you to use any particular hreed, hut whatever breed you have got now. set about to correct the defects in the wool of the particular breed von have hv thru',ting out uneven wooled ewes, ami using only even wooled rams of Liio same hreed as your ewes, and don’t forget that if you have an outside cross in your flock you will according to Mendel, have at least three classes of sheep to deal with. Mr Pearce has not given von his ren-. son uhv lie thinks a crossbred will he an improvement. Mendel tells you whv it wont.”