The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-04-16

ment of Agriculture.)
They are being shown" down il
AliSsOuri-and they like it.
For the first time the wool grower.
of that state have been marketin.
their wool comparatively. and the plar
Is proving a great success. At 7(
Capitalization points the wool has
been brought in from the country fol
pooling. All told. several thousand
growers have shared in the big GO.
operative movement and wool amount.
Ing TO millions of pounds has been
handled. In each case ii has been
graded as the growers brought il in,
an expert grader supplied to the bu-
reau of markets, United States De
partment of Agriculture. classifying
the fieeces. The work of the grader
is part of an investigation being car
ried on by the bureau in connection
with study of the tentative wool
grades which the Department of Agri-
culture has recently established.
1t isn't so much the immediate in
crease in money returns resulting from
cooperative marketing that interests
these growers-althOugh they promise
to fare as well or better than the aver
age in this years market, which is far
from normal-but il is the benefit they
expect to derive next year and the
years following from their experience
of this season.
The showing I'm Missouri-and
elsewhere-has consisted in demon
strating the value of grading as car
ried on under the cooperative plan.
The growers have been quick to see
their mistakes and propose not to re-
peat them. As result. the entire
wool industry is to profit by a gen
eral raising of standards among the
growers
Amazing Variety of Wrappers.
The seemingly incidentaI-but real
ly very mportant-matter of wrapping
the fleece illustrates the benefits of CO.
operative wool marketing. One of the
regulations which must be observed, if |
the wool grower is to suffer no penal /
~ when his wool is graded. is that |
each fleece shall be wrapped in pa
per Irvine or a hard-glaZed Irvine. If |
other Irvine is used fibers from it are
almost sure to become mixed into the |
wool and may cause serious trouble
In the spinning machinery, or if these
hbers are woven into fabric they be-
come conspicuous owing to the fact
that they take the dye differently than
the wool fibers. This often results in
the cloth having such defects as to be
almost worthless.
Many wool growers had never I'M
1erstood this until it was explained to
them by the grader, consequently some
Of the lots of wool brought into the
were done up in ways
hat would have been amusing had il
lot meant considerable financial loss
% the uniformed growers. Some
Used binder Irvine and sisal others .
lark, smooth wire, and barbed wire. ,
md still others cotton rags torn in
trips. The majority, of course. had
heir fieeces tied with the proper
Incidentally the bureau of markets ,
EXPLAINS that Missouri is not alone in I
he matter of being shown since {
TOol growers in all sections of the {
ountry have discovered that they S
ave been following practices that a
ften seriously penaliZed them. U
mo More Wet Wool for Me-" S
But the use Of proper wrapping ma
eriai is not the only thing which the
cooperative wool growers are learn
lg. SHEAR the sheep when the wool
absolutely dry" say the Department r
Agriculture and wool experts every
here. But many growers apparently
. not know of this requirement. One
raider in Missouri was amazed to find
4 of the wool in q certain lot thor h
lghly soaked. Pressed for an ex- Il
anation the grower admitted that he O
d not know that moisture made any d
Florence in the grade, but realized u
lat moisture added to the weight. b
hen asked how he could account for d.
e condition of his fleece, he admit D,
d that he had allowed his load of ri
DOL to stand In the creek all night. te
hen he discovered that tbs was re- bC
'onsible for his wool being rejected is
, took the decision smilingly and OF
it'll "Never again !" drove away. RI
Burs Cause Trouble. I'll
One class of rejects" in wool grad III
g is known as "burry." Many farm re
S have become indignant when some dl
their fleeces were thrown into the to
Try class. But in each case the
ader has been able to show them n
careful examination that the con-
mined fieeces contained large num- o,
RS of burs-sometimes so or 60.
-ery such experience has sent the
over back to his farm resolved to
lean up those burs." "Next year
u'll see an improvement in nv CO
'ol." more than one man has told IN
: grader. r,
II Is experiences like these that are is
king wool growers In many sections be
the country ronlizo fhot 49, h.c~