Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-24

be figured at an average Of one cent per
pound In the grease. That Is to say,
ifa lot of wool costing ~ cents per
pound In the grease, has shruuk two
thirds of It's weight In the process Of
securing the bare cost Of the clean
wool WI III be IS cents, 10 which
should be added ! cent per original
pound, making the total cost OF the
! wool In "A clean state as cents. Al
though wooden manufacturers gcner-
ally prefer 10 clean their own wool, yet
there are several securing establish
ments in the vicinity of Boston, which
find plenty OF business ia doing work
I for dealers and others ut round price
of n cent pound which includes
freight 10 aud from Boston. Dealers
often have wool upon which differ
cnces of opinion exist rs to value, aud
the differences are settled by sending
1t 10 the job securing mill. Then
there are u few mills which have no
facilities four securing. a large hosiery
establishment. for example. which
uses 30 per cent of W. ul in its winter
goods, and only y per cent. in those
for summer wear, buys all OF Its wool
I'm secured state.
Much has lately been written about
the wastefulness Of the present prac-
tice OF throwing away the grease and
other resultants of the process Of wool
securing, In France aud other coun-
tries of Continental Europe this liquor
Is SO treated as to obtain from IL
VALUABLE QUANTITIES OF Potash,
grease, etc. Much of the grease is ex-
ported 10 the United States under the
name of "de gras, and is used in the
manufacture Of leather. II is also
stated that the ileeccs Of France could
supply all the potash used in that
country. Estimates have been made
that 10000, 900 pounds of grease might
bc obtained from wool In this country,
and chemists have shown that wool
could be readily and economically
washed with naptha or gasoline in
such manner "a To not only recover
the waste products, but also TO leave
the fibre in better condition for taking
dye But some wooden mills which
have made experiments in this dircc-
ton have found them unpFoiitable;
| and manufacturers generally are OF the
| opinion that the saving of the waste
from wool-washing is II French idea
which cannot he any more readily
transplanted 10 this country than
many of the French methods of utili-
zing food products.
How to secure the removal Of burrs
and other vegetable matter that the
sheep catches in his tiecc, is a subject
in which wooden manufacturers every
| where feel IA far more practical interest
than in any of the theories in regard
TO waste wash water. After the scour-
ing process Is completed, the burrs still
remain in the fleece. For worsted and
high grade of WOODEN goods, burrs arc
either clipped from the wool with
scissors In process of sorting, or the
whole fleece is unhesitatingly rejected.
But even in mills making these goods,
some burrs escape the vigilant eye of
! the sorters.
EXCELLENT MAcnISERY Is MADE,
which remove great portion of burr4
| by passing the wool between two roll
| lers that operate so closely together as
| to throw out the burrs while permit.
! ting the passage of the tibres. But
| shives, small burrs known rs "beggai
lice,' aud other pieces of vegetable
matter, find their way into the finish
cd cloth TO u greater or less extent in
| spite of the most ingenius manipula-
! tlOIi Oh machinery.
The common soft burrs wcll-known
to New England rural districts, rs
the small spiral burrs of California and
South America, are great pests to TIL,
wooden manufactured. The soft burr
breaks apart and gets mixed up in tn,
wool, and the spiral burr unwinds it
self with similar maligu effect Tn,
great trouble is that the burrs, shives
plcces.of grass, etc, being composed o
vegetable matter, do not take dyes sat
isiactorily in connection with the ami
NAL tibres of the wool Hence, wher
ever piece of vegetable matter has
got into the cloth, II defect is apt to APP
pear. Some mills which make fancy
cassimcres and fine worsteds have rs
many M 30 or loo girls employed with
pen and dyeing inks removing
the little imperfections in coorinl
caused by the presence Of vegetaol,
matter in wool.
What Is wanted above everything
else in the wool trade at the prcsen
time IL some chemical process for ~
moving burrs and other eXtraneou
vegetable substances without injur,
TO the animal ilbres. some lots of WOO
from Louisiana and Georgia havebeei
found to contain 40 per cent of burr
after securing. Such lots of wool, o
course, could not be used except TO
".l,lingN IN 'ow-priced goods.
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