i2 4 THE SHEEP AND WOOL INDUSTRY 



RE-CLASSING BY WOOL-BROKERS, DEALERS, ETC. 



Re-classing is generally done by wool-dealers and brokers. 

 The latter employ competent classers to re-class any clips that 

 have been badly graded on the stations or farms, or that have 

 been sent to town without any previous classing whatever. 

 Large wool-dealers re-class their wools so that they can make 

 them into large even lines resembling station clips, and very 

 often they use a station brand, and the wool is so evenly 

 classed that it is difficult to tell it from a station clip. 



We will take re-classing as it is usually done by the wool- 

 brokers. They seldom have to re-class any very large clips, 

 because the stations generally employ competent classers at 

 shearing time. The bulk of the re-classing done in the stores 

 consists of lots of ten to fifty bales, as very often sheep farmers 

 send their wool down with all qualities and types mixed in 

 the bales together, and the fleeces are very often unskirted. 

 The wool-classer has the bales opened up and examines them 

 thoroughly, and decides whether they are to be skirted or not. 

 He will then class them out, making even lines of the wool so 

 that each lot will command competition and bring its full value. 

 Say, for instance, he has to class out a farmer's ten-bale lot of 

 mixed Cross-bred wool with Comeback and Lincoln fleeces, and 

 all the qualities between, packed together. The classer would 

 then make about three separate lines of wool out of the ten 

 bales of mixed fleece, consisting of fine, medium, and coarse 

 Cross-bred. He would brand them as follows : 



A. A. Cross-bred. Consisting of all the fine fleeces of 56*8 to 58'$ quality. 



A. Cross-bred. Consisting of all the medium fleeces of 46*8 to 50*3 quality. 



B. Cross-bred. Consisting of the coarse fleeces of 36*5 and 40*3 quality. 



The wool would then be in fairly even lines. If you made 

 more classes than I have named your lots would be too small, 

 though if the broker was interlotting the wool you could class 

 it right out. Interlotting is putting wools of the same quality 

 and money value together, and selling them in one big line, 



