FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN MERINO WOOL CLIPS IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8349, 4 February 1907, Page 6

FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN MERINO WOOL CLIPS IN LONDON.

The sale of a famous wool clip is an event which is always of the greatest possible interest to the up-to-date flock-owner. The fame of some of the most prominent Australian flocks is world-wide. Mention need only be made of such names as Widgiewa, Wanganella Yabtree, and Belltrees to convey to the minds of wool enthusiasts all that is best in the way of wool-growing. Advices just to hand inform us that at Messrs Buxton, Ronald and Co.'s sale at London on November 30th last, the renowned 'dip R. F.H.-Yabtree realised the high price of I6d per lb for greasy first combing hoggets. On the same day Mr 'John S. Horsfall's Widgiewa clip sold at 15d\per lb for grease combing wools. In the report by Bradford's leading wool expert (Mr S. B. Hollings) there appears the following sentence with reference to the clips above referred to, viz.: "These are excellent prices, and speak in high terms of the character of the clips." What the manufacturer wants is wool which will scour, spin, and dye to his satisfaction, and for such he is prepared to pay the very highest price. This fact has been exemplified, time and again in the prices obtained year after year by all of the four famous clips referred to. The phenomenal and epoch-making sale of the Belltrees clip in November, 1905, in Sydney, is still fresh in the memories of pastoralists. On that occasion 1,300 bales were sold on one day at the then high price of £l7 10s per bale, a sale' unprecedented in the history of wool during the last thirty years. To secure record prices for small lots of wool is comparatively easy; but to get similar prices for a line comprising over 1,000 bales is quite another matter. In the wool world, as in every other line, there is always plenty of room at the top, but to get there, as any one knows who has achieved the distinction, nothing but the very best of everything must be kept and used. The foundation of the flock must be laid on the right lines, and their treatment must be of the best. Quibell's Dip has been used on the famous flocks beforenamed for many years, and the owners of them attribute in no small degree the success they have achieved to the judicious use of these world-renowned preparations. For long-wool sheep, Quibell's preparations are equally as efficacious as for merinos. In this latter line no one has achieved such universal distinction as Mr Henry Dudding, of Grimsby, England, owner of the celebrated Riby Grove flock, and no one can speak in higher terms of any article than he does of Quibell's Dips. New Zealand flock-owners of the highest standing who have used Quibell's dips speak in similar terms of approbation of these preparations. The example of the men who stand on the highest pinnacle of fame is well worthy of being followed by every sheep-owner . who wishes to make the most of his flock. Quibell's Dips, it should be said, are obtainable from Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., who are sole agents for the North Island.