Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-14
PREPARING WOOL FOR
MARKET.
Some Timely and Valuable Sug-
gestiOns-HOw to Handle


geSt1OnS-HOW 10 hanuie
Fleeces.
The National Lire Stock Journal gives
some timely and valuable suggestions TO
wool growers in regard TO preparing
wool for market, as follows:
There is small room for doubling that
it is to the ultimate interest OF sheep
breeders TO so cultivate their tiocks as to
induce the growth of the greatest pos
sible weight Of cleansed wool for their
expenditure OF labor and food. With
each recurring season comes the usual
avalanche of advice from middlemen
and manufacturers, topped off with an
emblazonment of the great advantage to
the grower in placing his woods upon
the market in the lightest possible con-
ditiOn. Certainly, no teaching OF the
Journal has been at variance with this
proposition. There is, however, one
view of the situation which the COM
planning parties seem TO have overlook
ed !; j. e., that the would-be teachers are,
by their action, continually discourag-
ing any general adoption OF their
precepts.
Wool growers will average with the
best of humanity; but as the majority OF
men will be found acting in the line OF
their present advantage, those who re-
peat TO the wOol-grOwer the Oft-reltera-
ted maxims favOring clean washing,
early shearing, neat rolling, and mini
mum of string, to-day, and tomorrow
offer them no more, or very little more,
than the price paid for wool not so sys-
tematically manipulated, must attrlb-
ute the failure OF their teachings to that
excusable selishness of man which
prompts him 10 realize for his capital
and labor the maximum results consis-
tent with law and equity. The lncen-
tive TO wOOl-growing is mOney-maklng;
and so long as the flock. holder can get
more money far the fleece OF a sheep
when unwashed, or half-washed, or one
that, after having been properly washed,
was allowed to remain on the sheep I'M
til the normal amount OF grease had
been restored, Just so long will tteeces
be found as heavy as legitimate means
can make them. The manufacturer
who expects an opposite result must
base such expectations upon elements
of character seldom found outside the
lists of those who are prompted solely
by philanthropy.
The growing and selling OF heavy
heeccs-feeces carrying large amount
of grease and gums altogether legltl-
mate, so long as the seller practices no
deception by cOncealing the true cOndl-
ton of his product. The man who
would buy an invoice OF wool without
examining its condition and quality, or
having such examination made by some
competent party, would find in bod
carrying more appropriate field Orthe
display of his peculiar qualifications
than a wOOl-lOft can ever afford. As
markets usually run, the grower gets
more money per head Ofsheep for heavy
wool than for the same tleeces in the
lightest possible condition; and so long
as such premium on heavy tieeces is
held out to their pockets, all appeals to
the ears of men will be but as the noise
of sounding brass or a tinkling Gym
bal" Wool will, as rule, be made as
light as possible, and its subsequent
manipulations attended TO with the
most rigid oversight, whenever the
markets show premium upon such
observances; but until that time very
little change from the present practices
need be looked for.