PACKING OF WOOL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 8

PACKING OF WOOL

A note of warning was recently sounded, with regard to the mistaken methods adopted by some growers in packing their.wool. Tho subject is strongly emphasised by the "Wool Record, which writes:—"Fanners and buyers are warned to avoid next season*tho tendency to pack their bales as tightly as .passible. This spoils tho appearance of !the wool, which can only bo sampled from the bales in small broken handfuls; besides this, buyers will be shy about bidding on baies weighing 4001b'. to 5001b., and will give such lots a 10/,- estimate of yield. It will bo quite as bad a fault to pack bales only to about three-quarters of their capacity because, tho wool settles down in transit, arid tho bales arrive there- with a sagging appearance, and seem to bo only half-packed. If this new method of declaring -,he weights of wool has any effect upon values at all, it will be in tho direction of improving the price of wools that are lighter than they look, and decreasing the price of wools that are heavier in condition than their appearance indicates. In other.words, it should tend towards helping to arrive at intrinsic values.

So great has been, the demand upon the Wajugaiva Freezing Works this year that it is considered that further accommodation far butchers is required. . It is probable that provision will bo made for another fifteen Vutchers nest year, -which will briug the slaughtering capacity ot the lvorks up to between 4000 and 5000 per day. ■ In' consequence of the high' prko ruling ior hvesi'mg ewes, a. good fanners in tip Bhetahuna, district arc not culling noirly so heavily as usual (says tho "Express"). They contend it will pay them better to keep.the best of the culls for breeding purposes than to dispose of and replace them. What effect this will eventually have on the flocks is open to question, but it is certain in the interim that this class of sheep will require to be better done, especially if winter,is at all severe, and consequently paddocks-will.havo to be less heavily stocked or extra food provided in other ways. Mr. A. J. Keith, of AsMurton, has running in iho Tiiiwald Domain a tbirty-five-year-old ponj. Mr. Keith brought the pony with him, when coming to New Zealand some years ago, inland 600 miles from Melbourne, and had him in work without a break for over a quarter of a century. The pony is now quite toothless, but is kept on soft, good food during the summer months, and during tho autumh and.winter months he is brought in to stable quarters, warmly rugged, and carefully fed. He always was, and is still, treated as a great pet.. .

The world exacts from you its toll of worry and work—there's no need for you to add to it. Make things as easy as you can—"Victor" Vats, lighten labour and help inciease the,quality'of the cheese. "Victor" Vats have that eloping bottom which caused such a sensation in the cheese-making ■ world. Every factory should have "Victor" Vats, they are built {or efficiency and satisfaction. Write for particulars. Albert J. Parton, Plumber, Carterton—Advt. .