WASTE IN SHEEPSKINS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 20, 17 August 1917, Page 3

WASTE IN SHEEPSKINS.

A HINT TO FARMERS. Per Press Association, Timaru, August 10. Messrs F. Barkas and Ck S. Neville, of the District Supplies Committee, state that they have been asked by Mr James Boaden, the Government s appraiser of sheepskins, to draw the attention of farmers and pastoralists to the serious waste and loss that is going on all through South Canterbury and Otago, owing to want of care in many cases in the saving and marketing of sheepskins. Mr Boaden says, that on a moderate estimate, he considers in the districts where he is now valuing and purchasing sheepskins for the Imperial Supplies Department, the farmers are losing at least £IOO every week and nearly tin! whole of this- sum might be saved if all- the farmers and sheep-owners would take more care with their sheepskins. Mr Boaden is emphatic JUn stating that the number of skins he is 'obliged to class as faulty, torn, damaged, rat eaten, or carelessly butchered, are much too great. If all farmers would exercise common care in taking the skins off flic sheep, drying them, and properly picking them before sending them to the stores, there would be very many fewer skins to be classed as “damaged and faulty,” with an increased return to the farmers, as already stated, of about £ioo a week.