Shearing After Rain

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 2

Shearing After Rain

The fact that some woolgrowprs in the south are reported t° be shearing within a few days of heavy rains has caused some comment. Wet shorn wool naturally is heavier than when dry, and it is stated authoritatively that buyers in the past have suffered considerable losses through sheep being shorn when the wool was wet. One buyer is said to have lost £BOO in one purchase. In consequence of complaints from buyers, growers whose wool shows a loss of weight will have to meet debit notes lrom the brokers. It is also stated that some of last season’s clips when opened in England and the Continent were found to be falsely packed by rougher wools being put in the centre of bales. This is another matter concerning whi-h buyers ate said to he determined to protect themselves.