188 The Organisation of the Wool Industry. 
It is different with home grown wool ; British wool is 
either not separated into classes at all or the separation is done 
only in the roughest way, it is often carelessly packed in bulky 
sheets and contains all sorts of dirt and impurities, and is sold 
through local brokers or agents or at local auction fairs. The 
difference in method is not unnaturally reflected in the prices 
received for the wool in the different cases. There is ilo 
reason why British farmers should not by co-operation place 
themselves in as strong a position as the Colonial farmers have 
done, and the Agricultural Organization Society has drawn up 
a scheme which the wool producers of a district can co-operate 
to carry out. The scheme provides for securing a central 
depot in any given district to which the farmers of the district 
can bring their wool and have it classified by an expert classer, 
bulked with the other wool of the same standard of quality 
similarly treated, and marketed in the most saleable form. 
The shearing of the sheep under the scheme is done on the 
farm and it is suggested that the most economical course to 
pursue is for the first rough separation to be made at the time 
of shearing, before the wool is sent to the central depot. Each 
member of the wool society is asked to conform to the regu- 
lations of the society relating to shearing, preliminary packing, 
delivery to depot, treatment of sheets, classification of the wool, 
and the marketing of the wool. 
The suggested bye-laws for adoption by a co-operative wool 
society are as follows : — 
1. All sheep to be shorn on a boarded floor. 
2. Separate sheets to be hung up in the shearing shed to receive the wool 
after being separated into four lots, viz., fleeces, pieces, bellies, and locks, in 
addition to the usual division of washed and unwashed, hoggs and ewes. 
3. The bellies to be shorn and placed in the bellies sheet. 
4. Each fleece as shorn to be immediately thrown on the wool table and 
spread out, clean side uppermost ; the strong woolled britch to be broken off, 
also any dirty locks adhering to the fleece. 
5. The parts thus separated to be placed in the pieces sheet. 
6. Fleeces to be rolled and neatly tied with the neck wool. No twine or 
string to be used for this purpose. Fleeces thus rolled to be placed in the 
fleeces sheet. 
7. During the shearing the floor to be kept clean by constant sweeping, 
all pieces of dirty wool to be picked out from the sweepings and places in the 
lochs sheet. 
8. Sheets as filled with the different classes of wool to be sewn up with 
good string — no binder twine to be used — -and carefully labelled as to the 
class of wool contained therein. 
9. Sewn up sheets to be removed to a covered dry place. 
10. Only sheets supplied by the Society to be used ; these sheets will be 
marked according to the different classes to be placed therein. 
11. When shearing is completed the full sheets to be sent into the depot 
and a receipt obtained for the number of pounds of each class of wool delivered, 
which will have been separated as follows : — 
