WOOL CLASSED BY STUDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 2

WOOL CLASSED BY STUDENTS.

ACHIEVES TOP PRICES. ' A VALUABLE HINT TO FARMERS. '• It may be remembered'(says our Palmerstoa > T orth correspondent! that; during Dec6mbte ; ; i: .; student s of the Palmer stonV North - Technical v- J ." School skirted and . classed several bales of ;' wool at. >Alr.- H. Akcrs's farm, Linton. >In - with the work then done, tho director of the school (Mr. D. Opie) has received the following letter from Mr.; A. -E., 1 • -Uabin, of Levin and Col, .'Wellington:— "At. our wool sale, held, oh January 8, y wo offered the'wool classed'by. your student's. :. with, tho. following results': —Lot 127, ; two. y, bales .superfine.combing A, -lOd;'; lot 123, two bales. sqper' crossbred -\B,' o}d.; lot ,' 129, two . bales: super; crossbred''coarse' C,' d.; lot ■130; threo bales pieces, -4Jd-; lot 750, one bale ■' dingy-, and.'cottM,' 6Jd; ; :-lot' 751i',one: ; .bale . . pieces and . dead, ; .6£d.; .- The prices realised were, the top prices obtained at the sale for tho . particular ;,, descriptions; named. y Tbf wool .was. well classed,i and :y----siderablo attention .from the.' '.trade, y, -.the/ ppinion:'being{ freely expressed' that the; ctep , \ taken -by tUo lPalmerßton North Technica. . School .was in. the right- direction. Many farmers in your district and elsewhere' do not class,at all, and fleeces of all descriptions arc baled' together, with the result that wool' . buyers£iiiVmany -instances, liavo to buy on a • ' lower, .value than the. wool really warrant?. - If' farmers had ;a general knowledge'as : . to . the ..quality "or. firmness; of. wool so , ; that'fleeces 'of different:grades could, be.iept -r i apart, and, at tho same time, knew to what > ; extent -a ; fleece; should' ; .bo.. : skirted - without .7 y overdoing it, ; this. be practically all thai , is necessary. It should not bo -, a difficult '},:■ matter, for-a school, as yours. is,'ito' : impart . this, 'knowledge/to. farmers :'and ; the ■ y sons of favmers, :,so -thatV on ' - most. ' farinsj •; there could bo someone . who could undertake . , classing anil skirting during"shearing. Wo y ; ; trust that yonr school will bo the means of !-■' imparting the .knowledge ' freely.', in your y district.''- y^.'.y'yV.'y : V' :: ---iy yy-^v