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then to every 10 sheep washed pour 2 buckets of the boiling soap and water 
into,the washing-tub, refilling the copper, and adding each time half a pound 
of soap, and so on throughout. 
" You want a reserve tub for a man to keep leading water into ; and before 
each sheep leaves the washing-tub you pour over its back 2 buckets of water, 
and this, with what the sheep takes away in its wool, will keep your wasbing- 
tub at about the proper height." * 
Mr. R. Taylor, Woolstapler, Bradford, tells Mr. Tindalht — 
" Wool is increased in value, by being well washed. Id. per lb., and soft-soap 
adds lustre, and is very good for the sheep's skin. I recommend tub-washing 
with soft water." 
Mr. Tindall further observes : — 
"You get a great advantage over the ordinary dyke-washing in the driving. 
Often in May and June, when you take sheep to wash, the roads are one mass 
of dust (sheep make more dust than anything). Should there be any wind, 
and you drive the sheep 4 to 6 miles or more (as several farmers do in this 
neighbourhood), when you get home (the dust getting into the wet wool), 
your sheep are nearly as dirty as when you started them from home, whereas 
in tub-washing the sheep do not leave the farm, and get back to their pasture 
at once, mostly missing any driving on the highway-road." 
For the following important communication, and for many 
other acts of kind and ready co-operation, I desire to express 
my most cordial acknowledgments : — 
" Bradfoi d Chamber of Commerce, 
" My Lord, " Bradford, January 27tli, 1875. 
" Your Lordship's communications to this Chamber have been submitted 
to the Wool Snpply Committee. 
" The getting-up of wool is a matter on which this Chamber has taken great i 
interest, as will be seen from the reports and circulars forwarded to you. The 
Committee are of opinion that the best way of repl} ing to the queries and 
remarks contained in your letters will be to state concisely their views in the 
following order : — 
" 1. That wool should not be washed or clipped before the first week in 
June, or later where the district is cold ; the object being to have as much 
yolk as possible in the wool, so as to secure a good scour in the washing. 
" 2. The information and experience which the trade and the Committee 
have gathered during many years, leads them to say that wasliing in tubs 
imder pioper conditions is of great advantage to the wool, because (a) the yolk 
being a kind of natural soap, and found in greatest abundance h.t clip time, it 
follows (b) that, by washing in a stream or large pool of water, the valuable 
efiects of this natural soap are, to a great extent, thrown away; and (c) in 
dyke and strcam-Wiishing the sheep have, in many cases, to be driven for 
miles along dusty roads; so that even where a thorough wash has been 
obtained at the dykes, its effects are partially neutralised on the return- 
* Mr. Tiuilall tells mo, that after .shcep-wasliinu; the waste water is spread ovcil 
a fold-yard, by which means any uiauurial matter the water may contain in 
solution is preserved. . 
t It is with great regret that I find space will not allow mo to make a full 
note of a very practical communication I have received from Mr. Turner, West 
gate Hill, Bradford; it came too late, but it strikes me as being very quaint pnd 
clever. 
