36 The Sheep-Scab. 



margin in the price of wool between the West 

 and the Eastj the difference, in a great measure, 

 being to the advantage of the grower. 



Manufacturers, finding that the success of their 

 mills no longer depended upon the profits to be 

 made out of their wools, but that competition ne- 

 cessitated a closer application to special styles of 

 goods, w^ere compelled to buy only such grades 

 as were adapted to the production of their partic- 

 ular fabrics; hence arose the importance and 

 advantage of commission houses, to receive and 

 assort the wools to that end. 



The classification of wools consists in assort- 

 ing the fleeces^ as they come from the sacks, 

 into different grades (each fleece being left 

 intact), in order to offer to the manufacturer, 

 as nearly as possible, the particular quality of 

 wool he may require. By obtaining just the wool 

 he wants, and no more, the consumer can afford 

 to pay its full intrinsic value, while each grade 

 goes into the place to which it is adapted, and 

 thus nets a better result to the owner than by 

 an}'^ other method. 



