THE MAIN CAUSE OF BAD WOOL.

Clutha Leader, Volume 1, Issue 52, 8 July 1875, Page 6

THE MAIN CAUSE OF BAD WOOL.

._, Of the defects 'which occasionally tfender wool useless" for manufacturing that known as " ; breachinessj" r o* wMkhe'ssjof the middk^^bn 1 of thefioreis most prevalent*--- In the * Bulletin Association dfWbOl Manufactures,' "some very interesting particulars re-, specting th'i^ seripuS defect in the" raw material used in one of the most im-' pbrtant of our ihariufactureare detailed,: • I]t is f; bey6nd ;' reasonable 'doubt that the . quality' bf^wool is Cp^ider|ahly , '^Qjpd by the condition and iconsrti.tuftibn qf tlie she'ep^ excepfyhowever, possibly.in cases; where neglect or- mismanagement has been the :fule; for . generations, this breachiness or weakness is not heredi* tary, neither jsqne bVeed of more liable to it than another.. It has 'oiftpn been noticed -by those; whose experience ih matters connected ; with wool-growing and buyin g is of ; niany, yeark / duration, that a whole flock;, is repeatedly, fbti^d affected with break one year and en-tirely-free the next, in consequence.- of a in the ; managements ;..' Jfiat, 1 wheresoever' this objectionable. tendency manifests, itself,? sheer carelessnessj negiectj ighbrajpce,. overstocking, scafpity 'pf ' food or:.water-4r:each;o.rali wiilbe f ;fpun(iv; It is a well known f ict that when sheep . are badly, fe^. and "they become ;iow in condition, Svbdl ! ' of a ! slig'lt-ah'd thin fibre only grows.,; :rWhen,,^pweyer,,the; •feed becomes moreliberal, the pores exjpand and^p'ermi't the < passage -ofa larger and,, sttbh^er fibre, as /.a; consequence that portion which grew when. the s^heep were in,: the slowest- condition; is ); weak and .snaps under the least-strain^: But nothing. is; so. 6|r;tain; : t6 ?, .Mubei a break ipo t^e, :wpo|: or .even ' the , sih3o}djnsjß|; the whole fleeces as, want >oi"'.w,aterV'y '.'Tp, , be a good fleece it is" not only necessary' i that it should be free; from oreacbiness; but it should be//uniforin : ' as ? 'regards' (fineness, length, pf, staple, density and softness. With a good fleece the wool at 'the -shoulder [part* is : . ■generally^ the lohjfest c fthd'beVt, and this is taken aWa standard' "with which to/compare J that from the^ rib^thigh and The density of 1 a fleece.while oh the shb'ep is ascertained By-closihglthe'harid upon a P,ortipn, r oj: f ,the , A rump f and of, the k>in [ l iih^;,nee^e r , qf .jpoihts^b&ng | usually the thinneaiia^rfauity.';?; and'^-f | this '-'again' gfoe- satisfaction; f the;facfev is signified as "ev'6h'''-ih'*'dehsity. ;, ' ; -To I- summarise these, .separate, examinations: ilf the fleece is* K 6f Nearly equal fineness I frdnrjtheMoulderr.to the thigh,; of nearly - J length : at the shoulder, -rib; thigh ah& ' ha'clg an'd '■' of; -equal w r dehsifev -at -the shoulder arid ac'rossthe loins'!,* "^bu may conduct ithatj yQUiha^neariy^a: perfect sheen."