Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-11-25
r,pMrR LEARNS ABOUT HIS
. WOOL

.Ls Illinois Std'S P0N''
4 -. ~. wool. and all worth about the
Wv. .-,,s psr -,ln1. In fact, PAID
'ii.'- ...,,.ou - the fleec,s OF my
~" ~ ,,s Judge that my neighoors
Ion ,be same boat, for heard one
". 80, goskmaSters in the State
" - much at a sheep farmers
So ..,c There was no incentive for
l... o,berv e. since We all got about
Io,"e ,rs rrIce for our heeces. Our
w, ,uyer would occasionally give
w., three OF US a cent or two more a
,r,s but suspect he did this large
: -, our GOODWILL. He knew that il
so,d our neighbors would soon fol-
-. spjt He used the old argument
~, he could not pay different prices
: The negh5orhood because it would
..rss hard feelings and he would not
:, ,hIe 10 buy the wool. He always
..,ised Us TO keep it under our hats"
~, he had paid us little better price
~, the others. think, however,
,b,, he did not know the grades OF wool
s;rself and vas unable to discrimin-
~. He always shipped all the wool
together in carload nts.
Nv sales sheet showed that ! got all
n. way from "a to 70 cents a pound
a, nv 1919 WOOL. Only the tags sold
* low as q cents, it is true, and this
VAS because of their heavy shrinkase
manure, dirt and greass,. short iber,
Gains and small tullS. The tags had
IA be separated from the rest of che
ypol in grading so a, 10 prevent ;h,:r
staining the main bJty Of the Hectes.
should have done this at shcaring
tue, have found out since.
Between the low-qu1rter and the fne
md Rne-medium staple the range in
price was from 81 to 10 cents. At first
this fine, half blood, three eights-blood
and cOmbing and clothing business
fured me. did not know what they
we're talking about, but letter came
uplanng that these were market wool
grade names and meant nothing about
the breeding of the sheep which pro-
iuced the wool That letter relieved
ny neighbOr's mind, for he liked all
rurebred sheep and was up in arms
about being accused Of growing three
Fights and quarter-blood. The letter
said that in general way Merinos ard
RambOuillets grew fine wool, fine
uossbred and tine-fleeced, Southdowns
halfblOod, Shropshires and Hamp-
shires three-eights blood, Oxfords and
DOrsets quarter-bhod, Romneys and
CheyiOts low quarter, and Lincolns and
CotSwold braid. If the woods were
long, ~ inches in the fine grade and
from J.: to an inch more in each
successive coarSer grade, they would
be comblng wuOls suitable for worsted
manufacture and worth as much as %
cents pound more than similar short
clothing woods that come in competi-
ton with noils or short combed- out
hcsTs and Shoddy or reworked wool.
After the pool was complete the
Illinois Agricultural Association pro-
cured samples of the main grades of
Illinois woods and places them in the
once OF the county farm bureaus. That
u course gave us a much better idea
'nan the letter could possibly do.
MY black wool sold for so cents. AT
pe 0eg.nning Of the war, because of
u'e scarcity of dyes, it was worth a
h'"' more than white, for it could be
r''"-el and made into a natural gray.
D4' IN normal times it is much less
valuable Ny sheep were westerns
'"'n ! got on the Chicago market
s"' ] mad not culled out the black
,''S' My commission man tells me
.-' o'y us, black sheep, one or more
IL " "Unl',t, as counters in the range
Inc neEder counts the black
s"',P frequently as a rough tally on
..-" hat a large part of his
get cut off and lost.
re. '-...-- this year that wool
. fiber in it or gray wool
the black, as it cannot
$3.50 HElng white goods The
.- Ut the pool told us to
...-.y, so that black fibers
:. re to the white heeces.
n. ",med us that all heeces
or binder Irvine had
vii a' the warehouse; mills
a. WOOL so tied, as the sisal
,,n in the wool and is
o., arm, where it causes ex-
d.. tossing. 1t will not take the
H. s-. TO must be picked out of
.. .,er by hand.
...f , rnnoI.