84 Wool. 



original length and a great deal of their original elasticity 

 and nature. They consequently make weak, dead cloths in 

 comparison with the real article. If cotton be blended with 

 these materials, however, a useful mixture or blend is pro- 

 duced which may be worked up into very useful cheap cloths. 

 So proficient have the Batley, Dewsbury, and Colne Valley 

 spinners and manufactures become that these cloths in appear- 

 ance frequently rival the true wool tweed. That there is a 

 use, and a very good and right use, for these mungo and 

 shoddy cloths cannot be gainsaid, but that when the purchaser 

 wishes to l)uy an all wool cloth these should be palmed off 

 upon him calls for the most severe condemnation. Unfor- 

 tunately the law has decided that the term woollen yarn 

 means yarn spun on the woollen principle and does not 

 specially refer to the fibre of which the yarn is composed, 

 so that mungo, shoddy, cotton, &c., may be used within the 

 legal definition. There is not quite the same objection to 

 employing the waste from the worsted trade such as noil, 

 roller waste, &c., but it does seem as though a line should be 

 drawn somewhere, as undoubtedly the purchasing public is 

 being taken in every day by spurious woollen goods really 

 sold as wool goods while they have not a particle of fleece 

 wool in them. 



A Comparison of English and Australian Methods. — Sheep 

 farming in this country is usually on a much smaller scale than 

 that prevailing on the Australian Continent, in South America, 

 and even in South Africa, and as a result it is more than probable 

 that the older but smaller industry has at least something to 

 learn from the younger but larger industry. In the matter 

 of shearing, " get-up," and packing it is probable that the 

 English farmer has much to learn from his fellow countryman 

 across the seas. On the other hand as " paddocking " develops 

 and endeavours are made to bring all tracts of land into use 

 whatever the difficulties may be, the Australian has much to 

 learn from the old country. Romney Marsh sheep are being 

 introduced with advantage into cei'tain low-lying coastal 

 districts, heavy Lin coins and Leicesters are being bred on the 

 richer pasture land, and so forth. One cannot take up such 

 a publication as Dalgety^s Review without being impressed 

 with the fact that out in Australia they realise that they must 

 work up to modern conditions and that nothing but the best 

 will do for them. It is this spirit of using everything which 

 modern scientific discovery has revealed that so energises the 

 Australian. Is the English farmer going to be equally 

 determined to make science his handmaiden ? 



It is sometimes argued, and facts too frequently support 

 the argument, that the scientific wool-grower does not meet 



