LESSONS IN WOOL-CLASSING.
DO FARMERS NEED THEM ? ' , A suggestion. has boon made in the Wairarapa (writes our Wairarapa correspondent) that the Mr.sterton Technical School should inchido wool-classing in its curriculum; It 1 - has been pointed out that a class has already boon comnienccd at Feilding, where seventeen : farmers have Handed- in\their names)-'■ and.it is thought that_ something of the . kind might bo started in tho Wairaraua. Some of , those who arc every day: in : touch-with tho wool business in the Wairarapa informed our' correspondent -that _ if'nvool-classinaw.eris'i. ' taught-iW the Technical School it. Would'be*., of great advantage to the farmers if % they would avail themselves of -the- opportunity,"Owners of big flocks had their own classers, but it was the'small farmer who might learn ; . a good deal regarding':the packing of:, wool ■ ill: something like its proper form. - Another authority thought that thero' would'be. some trouble in obtaining the services of an expert instructor, while still another expressed ' the opinion • that' some' teaching was badly re- ■ quired by farmers in tli'o treatment of-skins and hides; . .. ' .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 2
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171LESSONS IN WOOL-CLASSING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 190, 6 May 1908, Page 2
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