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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4298, 1 August 1921, Page 3

GRADING PRODUCTS AIDS MARKETING. The success which the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers’ Association has had in disposing of practically 50 per cent, of the 1920 Canadian wool clip, has been very largely due to the care winch they have taken, in carefully grading eaclr growers’ lot. From the very beginning of this organisation all tne wool which they have handled has been put up in its proper grade. Burry or seedy wool was sold as such and the clothing wools were separated from the combing wools and these subdivided into fine, medium and low or coarse grades. The manufacturer knew what he was buying and based his price accordingly. The quality.of the wool sent in by the grow-;i has stead'ly improved and it has been put up in better shape. These facts combined, have made this graded Canadian wool very popular with the mills and thus enabled sales to be made at fair, prices at. a time when wool was practically a. drug on the market and when 80 per cent, of the wool in the" United States remained unsold. It is on a falling market that the. value of a standardised grade of product is brought out. Grading extended over a period of years is bound to improve the general quality of a product and to give purchasers confidence in buying.

.Exports of wool from Canada during 1920 are given as 6,289,101 lbs., compared with 1919, when 11,100,438 lbs. were sent out of the country. By providing a succession of forage crops for feeding, not only can a larger number afe cows be kept and the milk yield increased, but a marked saving in the feeding stuffs bill can be effected. Where animals have been stunted their digestive organs are usually impaired, with the result that their food is not assimilated with advantage, and the nutriment contained therm is voided in the dung. The Canadian Government tackles the noxious weed problem in a thorough manner. When the last mail left what is known as the interprovincial weed train was being organised for a six* weeks’ tour of the three prairie provinces. This was to carry a staff of experts, who, by means of lectures and demonstrations, would make plain to farmers the menace of vegetable pests, an<| advise on the best methods of combating same.