THE WET WOOL QUESTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 747, 21 February 1910, Page 7

THE WET WOOL QUESTION.

kuyr 'TfIST-Dli -V ; -i ■ ■ ■:"■ ■ -'■$: '{i- £\-j £ .." ■ The ; wet, wool i§. : of: such'ijm- • portaSice §pjgg|st'i' %osej; cgnn§'cte<J - ijith ,■ onr greatest .industry, ttiat.'anjr' suitable appliance, for determining. the vjexed ijuesfcion ps to whether .wool is too wet to. shear or not attracts attention. It is interesting to noto from the Sydney "Herald" that, the. conference representative of tto apd Australian,TPorkersf"Uhions'has not"ye£ : finally'accepted 'any .^ijohjne thiii :purnosp, althougj), it has ' approved of"a.'. yooj/ tester, tests'made at different' sheds last' season'.'-It'is open to consider other machines, and one invented by. Mr. A. M'Leod .;and at present being, exhibited \in: Sydney, in the. opinion of our cjntemorary' certainly irarranis veiy. careful consideration as a medium for filling the purpose demanded. The iriacliine,consists of a'brass cylinder, in '.which, the' wool is placed/. The cylinder is 11 surrounded ty.ah oil'jacket,-to; act as a check on the heat'from a spirit lamp thp. icyjinder;-. Connected-Tryh "tls.- -,is. ft :4nuoJ through * whicS "the moisture" in the; wool is . forced' by the' steam generate,'into a'i grpduated glass, which / registers ' the amount : r of water. This gla«s contains kerosene, and the'. water, being heavier,. it■.sinks 'to'-; tho bottom, and is ' easily measured.; trfat ;an ; qflpce - (>f • ;Trpdl by ; tEis'process' takes "20 to; 25 minutes.; It -is.:>very V6ii^le,V;bfi%''on'' j th'e prinT. dpjcj'of: .isl'oerfaiily '.effective. : as' far '■ the layrajnd, percejyf.' At the eiid of'a'test witnessed py the ."Herald" .writet, portion- of, th§ .wogl, .aftef being'-taken • ths'Acylinder/!',':was found ; burnt,; ,and r ',sl^'.'',understands that. ,this„ is..cj?nsi4?i#- '?B ~ Why, i£ is . nW easy Ho it is,vafte'i: all, .only .additional 1 evidence that the moisturo has been thoroughly driven out of the wijol, and that is the object of the machine. . ' ■