South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-16
COOPE Of
WOOL GROWERS
BEING URGED
Say Production and Handling
of Clip Can Be Made to
Bring Bigger
Profits.

preparing wool for shipment cost
him from one TO three cents a
pound. for the manufacturer is fire.
quently put 10 an extra expense,
against which. of course. he protects
himself by lowering the price 10 the
grower The grower does not often
sell direct 70 the manufacturer. does
not thoroughly understand the va
rious processes through which the
wool passes after leaving his hands,
and remains ignorant. therefore. Of
the need for Improvement in his
methods
To remedy this condition, some
form of cooperation among wool
growers i'm any given region is urged
i'm "a publication Of the United States
department of agriculture. bulletin
206. The Wool Grower and the
Wool Trade" The individual alone
can do little 10 improve matters.
for his clip is likely 10 be too small
To- induce the buyers TO make any
alteration i'm their accustomed meth
DDS OF estimating wool values. With
cooperation, however. il should be
possible to prepare the entire clip Of
any section. So that the reputation
of its wool would he enhanced and
the growers obtain the full market
value of their product A sufficient
number OF wool growers should be
included i'm each cooperative asso-
citation to enable at least 1000 or
5000 pounds of each of the various
grades 10 be marketed at one time.
Cooperation will do little good.
however. unless the individual grow
ers follow improved methods of
handling the clip. An instance Of
the present low price Of American
wool as compared with foreign is
given i'm the bulletin already men
toned. Two lots of wool Of the
and the other from Australia. were
purchased by a Philadelphia manu-
facturer- the American at Is IL
cents a pound and the foreign at 28
cents pound, before securing. In
the American fleece the kind OF
wool that this manufacturer really
wanted amounted to 1919 percent
of the total; in the foreign fleece TO
$3.50 percent. A more accurate
system of grading had given this
manufacturer II percent more of
what he wanted than the American
methods. I'm consequence the for
eign sheep grower got the larger
price for his fleece. The manufac-
turer paid for the imported wool %
cents pound and for the domestic
wool Is > cents pound-a differ
cnCe of Q ID cents. BY the time
shrinkage, "on sorts" etc had been
deducted. however. the cost per
clean pound to the manufacturer of
for the American fleece and 44.69
cents for the imported difference
of only 3.3T cents. It may have cost
the foreign grower a little more to
prepare his fleece. but he more than
recovered this in the higher price
he sold il for.
II American growers were in a
position CO understand a little better
the needs Of the manufacturer and
the reasons for his preference for
properly graded and packed feeces.
llAtN NOuAa ulAtAutcAlOldnAN De fQuCI
more willing 10 alter their methods.
The bulletin of the department OF
agriculture already mentioned gives
IN considerable detail much infor-
nation of these points. II also
suggests IL rules for the woolgrow-
er. which. il is said no one can af-
ford to neglect if he is at all solicit
Gus of the reputation OF his clip.
These rules are:
Adhere to a settled policy of
breeding the type Of sheep suitable
to the locality.
Sack lambs ewes, wethers''
and all buck or very oily heeces
separately. II the bucks or part OF
tle ewes or wethers have wool OF
widely different kind from the re-
mainder OF the flock, shear such
separately and put the wool in sep
arate sacks so marked.
Shear all black sheep at one
time, preferably last. and put the
wool in separate sacks.
4.-Remove and sack separately
all tags. and then allow no tag dis
count upon the clip as a whole.
5.-Have SLATED floors in the hold
ing pens.
6.-Use a smooth. light and hard
glazed preferably paper Irvine.
Securely knot the string or
each fleece.
S.--T1rn sacks wrong side out and
shake well before filling.
9.-Keep wool dry at all times.
10.-Make the brands on the
sheep as small as possible. and ust
/ a branding material that will scoul
out.
1l.-Know the grade and value OF
your wool and price il accordingly
I2.-Do not sweat sheep exces
siVely before Shearing.
15.-Keep the corral sweeping.
out OF the wool
14-Do not sell the wool befor,
II is grown.
l5.-When all these rules are fol
/ lowed. place your personal brand OF
Il