THE SHEARING OF SHEEP
A PROFESSOR’S ADVICE,
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR.
(United Press Association.)
tßy Electric Telegraph --Copyright.) LONDON, November 5. (Received Nov. 6, at 0.30 n.m.) _ There is some mystification In wool circles as to why Professor A. F. Barker (Professor to -Textile Industries at Leeds University) advised the South African growers to shear sheep twice or four times a year instead of growing cightinca fibre, thus ensuring equality of staple to meet manufacturing needs. Sir Viccars points out that Bradford could not handle inch or two-jnch staple, which would appeal ouly to Roubaix or to Tourcoing makers. In any case, such an idea was wholly inapplicable to Australia or New Zealand, where, if shearers had to bo paid for two or three shearings a year, nothing would be left for the grower.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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