wool CLIP GUIDE

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33981, 23 October 1975, Page 2

wool CLIP GUIDE

I (Wellington reporter) WELLINGTON, October 22. The Wool Board today ojjened its campaign to introduce simple and uniform standards of wool [preparation. The standaids will be outlined in a guide supplied to every woolgrower. Mr A. G. Lawrence, the deputy chairman of the board, said in Wellington that farmers were spending :50c a fleece to have it shorn, [prepared, and stowed in a pack, and at $36 a bale this ■ was nearly half the total cost ■lof marketing and transport I from the paddock to the overiseas mill. The board wanted to en[sure shearing that was fast, lefficient, and did not spoil the fleece. It had made a grant to the agricultural ■ engineering unit at Lincoln 'College to investigate the efficiency of woolshed work. Unnecessary labour could ibe reduced and the grower’s return improved because, [with many fleeces, it merely downgraded good wool to ; pull it off the fleece and sell |it as skirting. “Some farmers are meticu-! lous and are doing too much [shed work, while others are careless in leaving stains j and dirty wool that spoil the value of a good line. UNIFORMITY SOUGHT “If we can reach all farmers—from the men who watch their sheep like geraniums to the real Fred Dagg types—and persuade them to prepare their wools in a similar way, then it follows that we will get much greater uniformity in the wool clip,” [said Mr Lawrence. “Uniformity, particularly in the crossbred wools, is going to make it much easier for the broker, the Wool Marketing Corporation, and the 'buyers to bring lines together to make up a delivery.” Posters had been designed for display in sheds as a guide to clip preparation, and the attached wool colour photographs were designed to! I give the grower a lead on the; standard of his clip and the [appropriate skirting and grad-i 'ing. I