Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-05-30
OBJECT TO PAINT AND TAR
Buyers Are Complaining More Than Ever Be-
fore and Will Take Offending
Growers Suffer.

WORE complaint than ever is heard
this year over the action of the western
woolgrowers in branding their sheep
with paint and tar. says the Wool and
Cotton Reporter. This is not Il new
grievance; on the contrary it is an.old
grievance which time does not lessen,
The subject has been referred to be-
questionably be doing the growers a
service also. by alludinm to the matter
once more. Our attention has been
called recently to a lot of wool which
we are free to confess that a more
shocking exhibition could hardly be
imagined. The wool was in a con
dition to excite ones disgust. The
predominant color of the mass was an
exceedingly nasty red. and it is hard
ly conceivable that anyone should have
had the temerity to offer such a de
Perforated commodity for sale. This
is bv no means the first instance of
the kind that has fallen under our OBJ
servation. Repeated cases of this sort
have made us keenly alive to the fact,
that no matter how much the people of
this country may be in advance Of
other nations in their industrial meth
DDS, they have Il great deal to learn Of
wool growing industry.
When will the wool growers Of the
United States appreciate the fact that
there is money in putting up wool for
market in cleanlv manner? We
should suppose it would be self evil
dent to them that they could not drench
their wool in insoluble paint and ex-
pect to market it on satisfactory terms.
They brand their sheep with liquid
colors which are not soluble in water
and which do not yield to the influence
of the chemicals employed in the dye
room. 1t goes without saying that
wools that come to market in this con-
dition are disseminated against by
manufacturers. Trades are continu-
ally being lost by reason of the discov-
cry by an intending buyer of an undue
amount of paint in the wool. The
colored material is Il dead loss. Moth
ing can be done with it by the manu-
facturer. and it simply goes into the
waste heap. No manufacturer who
knows his business will buy wool
loaded with paint except due allow
ance is made for the fact in the bill
which the seller renders him. This
should be readily understood by the
grower, and it is difficult to under
stand how the latter can figure out
any advantage to himself in sending
such clips to the market. Every time
he does SO he stands in the way of his
own interests, for he is steadily build
ing up for himself the reputation of
Offering a commodity which it will be
for every ones advantage to have
nothing to do with as long as any
thing else can be found in the market.
The grower cannot plead necessity
for his course in branding his sheep
in the manner described. That is no
doubt the easiest and least expensive
way of branding them, but in the end
it is the most costly method for the
grower. In these days of sharp COM
petition success comes not to the man
who makes the least effort to satisfy
| the demands of consumers, but to the
man who makes the greatest. There
are ways to brand sheep without inn
pairing the character of the fleece and
| if at the start they are little more
expensive and troublesome than mere
ly painting the sheep, they are a de-
cided economy IN the end. What the
wool growers of the United States
need to do Is to strive in every way
individually and collectively, to raise
the character of the product which
they put upon the market from year to
year. "Any old thing will not DO;
| they should modernize their methods
in every particular-that is, if wool
growing is to be pursued as a serious
| occupation in this country in compe-
| tition with the world at large.
| TILES CITY MACcARONi VENDERS WAIT.