WOOL SORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 5

WOOL SORTING

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I have been interested in varioui suggestions for the betterment of the wool trade. I have served over 25 years as • practical wool sorter, with 20 years' experience in Bradford, where a sorter must nerve seven years' apprenticeship. I think that all wools should be carefully sorted for the various types and qualities rer quired in the textile world.. If this wai done in this country farmers would get better value for their wools.

Buyers are after certain types of wool, and at present they have to take bulked wools that have to be sorted in the Old. Country. Then to a large extent they have to re-sell the qualities they do not require, and this means that they cannot pay the best price for the types they really want. .Now, Sir, if these wool* were sorted here by practical sorter* buyers would know that they were buying the exact types that they require, and the farmers would be assured of getting th« best price for all their wools, for they would have various buyers bidding for various lines instead of a, ' few buyers bidding for one or two lots. I£ our wools were sorted properly we could put them to various uses in this country, thus create ing secondary industries. There is nothing better than wool for bedding, mattresses, upholstering, padding, rugs, carpets, etc., for the simple reason that it is the cleanest and best working material in the world. As a practical tradesman who is trying to live on relief work, I think that if thii side of the wool trade was developed it would create a lot of work and. also benefit the fanner as well.—Lam, etc., PRACTICAL WOOLSOBTER.