234 Western Live-stock: Management 
This is work that is always performed at the mill, while 
grading, skirting, and classing are done at the shed. 
The old method of sacking wool in a long burlap bag just 
as it is shorn could be best described as a lack of system. 
The wool is tramped into the sack while it is still warm. 
No care is taken to separate the fleeces into classes or 
grades, or to keep the dirt out. When wool is marketed 
in this manner, the buyer usually has the advantage of 
the grower, since the grower does not know what his wool 
is worth. Buyers purchasing all grades of wool mixed 
in one sack buy on the basis of the poorer grades. Until 
the last five or ten years, this method of packing wool 
was the only one in use in the United States. In the 
hands of untruthful growers this system is even worse 
than described above. Such cases as these are reported 
by the Textile World Record. From one fleece 121 feet 
of stout rough twine were taken. Twenty-two lamb tails 
were found rolled in another fleece. A boulder weighing 
seven pounds was received in a fleece by a Boston firm. 
Such practices, while not general, are very demoralizing 
to the wool industry. They are usually prompted by 
dissatisfaction on the part of the grower. 
Within recent years the various wool-warehouses about 
the country have been making various propositions to 
the wool-grower. Most of them are something as follows. 
The warehouse handles the wool on a commission basis, 
grading, baling, storing, and selling it for the grower. In 
some cases the warehouse sends a grader and baler to the 
shearing sheds and the work of grading and baling is done 
at the time of shearing. In other cases the warehouse 
receives the wool in the long bag from the grower and does 
the work of grading and baling at the central warehouse. 
This method of packing wool is more expensive, but the 
