HARSH WOOL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2696, 29 December 1909, Page 5

HARSH WOOL.

PRONOUNCEMENT BY BRADFORD’S LEADING WOOL EXPERT.

IMPORTANT TO * jIOCK-OWNERS.

“Where wool handles hard, harsfi, and drv it is always devoid of elasticity and spinning property, and the impression it makes upon the buyer is not a favorable one.” So writes Mr S. B. Hollings, the well-known Bradford wool expert, in his weekly publication, “The Wool Record,” of October 21. The causes of dry wool are various, but one of the most common is to be. found in the sheep dip used. It is the height of folly for sheep-oiyners to use a dip which leaves the wool harsh, however strong the claims its makers may put forward for it. The fact that there is a harshness of the fleece after dipping until certain dips indicates that the growing fibre has been detrimentally affected, and though such hardness may have entirely disappeared before shearing time, the fact remains that the fleece has been injured, and however slight the injury may be it means that the grower lias to pay for it in hard cash. Assuming the damage referred to amounts to but a few pence per fleece —it may easily be much more —how much better and more profitable it would be for the grower to .use a dip which will not injure the growing fibre, and at tlio same time ensures clean, sheep and a, clip of wool of the highest possible spinning aualities. Such a dip is Quibell’s. Don’t accept the maker’s claims for it, but ask the most famous nastoralists in Australia and New Zealand, who have tested it on level .terms against any other brand, what they think of it. Those who pin their faith in any other dip without having tested Quibell’s against their favorite would be well advised to make the test described. otherwise thoT- Trvn-r ko otanArnn-