WOOL GREASE.
VALUABLE BY-PRODUCT | . A Melbourne man who has bicn experimenting with wool grease has corns to the conclusion that by not looking after this by-product of the scouring process, Australia loses well over £300,000, and by sending Home ninetenths of (her wool unscoured, she places in the hands of manufacturers in Europe and America a substance which "they put to a score of uses, and they send back to Australia under a score of disguises for sale at fancy prices," wool grease being made the basis of lanoline, some complexion creams, and so forth. At the wool scouring was completely found • that out, the only grease- saved is that which floats on the surface of the water—about 1 1-3 to 8 per cent, of tlio grease 'extracted. The rest sinks into the mud at the bottom of the tank, and goes to waste. Recently tho Melbourne experimenter treated 2JO tons of.greasy merino wool, and when scouring was completed found that the floating grease represented only one per cent. But, out .of some 90 tohs of residual mud, he secured, by a new procoss, 8 per cent, of grease. In times such as the present the return wpre. sented by a quantity of valuable grease is not to be despised.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2762, 2 October 1923, Page 2
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210WOOL GREASE. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2762, 2 October 1923, Page 2
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