SOME WOOL PROBLEMS
Commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board to study factors in the variation in quality of fleeces of the same grade (one of the chief problems with which British woollen manufacturers have to contend, Dr. J. Nichols, of the Leeds Wool Research Association, reached Melbourne on the Orvieto Inst month, and will spend seven mothns in tho Commonwealth.
Before returning to England he w ; ll engage in sim ar work in New Zealand. Sojtn Africa and Canada. Dr. Nichols said that the difference in tho milling prjpor’ies cf v-00l cf the one grade interrupt al fpi/imeg ami caused ia great deal of trouble. The variations were due to factors of climate, nutrition, and environment, and if tho suitability of wool from certain districts ’for a certain product were determined •the trouble might be rectified. Speaking of South African wool, Dr. Nichols
said that tho proportion of fine fleece in it was very high. There was a demand for South African wool for certain of the higher grades of manufacture. The presence of dark fibres in wool caused by the using of dark-faced rams of British breeds in cross-breeding for mutton, made it useless for manufacturing. Wool of this kind was being produced to some extent in Canada.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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