Greasy colour measure

Press, 1 May 1981, Page 17

Greasy colour measure

Sometime-in the next wool selling season wool testing houses should be able to measure greasy wool as well as commercially scoured wool for colour. Dr A. R. Edmunds, who is head of the measurement and testing group at the Woo) Research Organisation at Lincoln, told the seminar on the measurement and marketing of crossbred wool in Christchurch last week that they were now- at the stage where a New Zealand standard could be drafted that would cover colour measurement procedures for both commercially scoured and greasy wool and it was expected that the standard would be a reality by about the end of the year.

Dr Edmunds said earlier that a plateau had been reached in the objective meaurement of wool for marketing purposes with measurements being able to be made of yield; vegetable matter and mean fibre diameter of greasy wool. The next steps forward would be the measurement of colour and length, but in the case of length it was a lot further away than with colour. Since late in 1977 commercial testing houses in New Zealand had had the ability to measure colour in commercially scoured wool, but it had not been taken up on a large scale yet.