PREPARATION OF WOOL FOR MARKET 
SMALL CLIPS 
Farmers’ lots of wool do not as a rule realise full market 
value, owing to want of uniformity in the “СЕТ UP.” 
If the following suggestions are acted upon, it will amply 
repay the trouble incurred, and give the buyers confidence 
in bidding for the small clips :— 
The sheep should not be shorn until they are quite dry. 
The fleeces should be carefully and fully skirted—no 
locks or pieces being left on the fleece— neatly rolled and 
packed in a bale. & 
Care should be taken to keep the fleece before and after 
shearing quite free from straw, chaff, etc. 
All discoloured, dingy, coarse, cotted or double fleeces 
should be packed in separate bags or bales, and not mixed 
with the good fleeces. 
Fine wool should be kept separate from coarse, but if 
there should not be sufficient of each to fill a bale, the 
different quantities should be put into fadges and kept 
separate. 
Bellies, as well as pieces and locks, should be kept separate 
from the fleece, and where the flock is sufficiently large to 
warrant thedistinction, belly pieces may bepacked separately 
from other pieces. The stained part should be picked ош, 
Locks and pieces should not be packed with fleece to fill 
a bale, but should be kept in a separate bale, fadge, or bag, 
but the fadge or bag can be put into the bale if there is 
room, to save cost of carriage: but Woolbrokers must 
be advised if. the Wool is so packed. 
Broken fleeces, burry and seedy parts, should be carefully 
separated from sound fleeces. 
The bales should be neatly sewn up after being packed, 
branded, and numbered, Care should be taken to put the 
brand on with stencil plates and ink. 
Particulars of each bale should be sent to Woolbrokers, 
so that they may know what they contain. If convenient 
the description should be put on each bale, viz. :— 
X-BRED FLEECE, FINE. — X-BRED FLEECE, COARSE. 1 
l-BRED PIECES, X-BRED PIECES. MERINO FLEECE, &c., &с.. 
