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more per pound for their wool, a thing which they can well afford to do. Let them, 

 at the same time, discrimnate against wool carelessly tied, or that contains chaflf, burrs 

 and other litter. Until buyers rigidly adhere to the above policy there can be but little 

 improvement expected among wool growers. 



The second and third objections are so closely associated that it is difficult to sepa- 

 rate the two in a discussion of them. If the reader has carefully read the foregoing 

 pages he will have a very definite idea in regard to the way the local dealers, commis- 

 sion men and manufacturers consider the present methods of Michigan growers in tying 

 up tlieir wool. 



That we might get at the question from the growers' standpoint as well as the dealers' 

 we addressed the following question to a mumber of prominent wool growers: Is 

 there anything' any better tlian a good, large wool box in which to tie up fleece.s 

 in preparing theni for market? "No. We do not think any way of tying adds 

 mucli if the fleece is kept entire and clean. It can be tied on the floor with one 

 string." ''Our buyers object to the wool box and we roll up the wool and use as little 

 twine as possible." 



The above answers are characteristic of all received. 



We made a careful canvass of the State and found that a great majority of the wool 

 growers use large twine, using to aid in the process of tying a square wool box. 



Figure No. 2. 



Wq have consulted no less than a dozen of the leading Boston wool buyers and 

 every one is prejudiced against wcJol tie<l with the common coarse twine, and radically 

 so when tied with sisal twine. The most of our ^lichigan wools reach the manufacturer 

 through Boston oommission houses, and if they object to the twine we use. and pay 

 Ifess for our wool on acccmnt of it, it is time for us to make a change. The eastern 

 wool hous( 3 do not object to coarse twine without reason. In the first place it is not 

 business for wool growers to tie up a fleece with a coarse, heavy twine, when a smjiU 

 twine will do as well. It is not right to attempt to >;ell a lot of twine at from 

 fifteen to twenty-five cents per pound which only cost five or six cents per pound. We 

 give below a cut which illustrates very nicely t]\e point we are trying to make. 



