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NEW SOUTH WALES WOOL

and if possible with a stream through it

THE SWIM This should be through soft clear running water, if possible but at all events plenty of it.

THE OPERATION
The washing pen must be filled as full as the safety of the Sheep will allow, Say 50; the fuller it is the sooner & better is the scour. They should remain in this until they are thoroughly soaked, & the yoke quite disolved, which, after the Scour is formed, will be a very short time. The pen must then be entirely emptied, by shoving the sheep as speedily as possible through the sluice into the Cleansing pen. Immediately that the last is out, fill it again, & allow the sheep to remain until the whole are removed from the cleansing pen, by passing them one by one under the sapling into the Scouring pen. In finishing them off there, or under the spouts, every one must judge for himself, but never keep the sheep in the water a moment longer then is necessary to make them clean, & always take care that they land from clean water"

GETTING UP THE WOOL, CLASSING

This is an important department & much overlooked in this Colony, greater attention ought to be paid to the getting up of the fleeces by conditioning the wool properly, by pulling off all dirty discoloured seedy or very coarse breeches & by the wool sorter where after business is to class into the various descriptions of clothing & Combing wools. A most serious loss arises to the Colony by neglecting this department, by the Superior wools being mixed with the inferior which are bought and used for inferior purposes A purchaser may have a lucky hit but on the whole the Colony loses the difference without anyone being the better of it.

There is an absolute necessity not only of every individual exerting himself, but of the whole community combining to raise the general character of the flocks not only by producing good wool, but by sending it to the market clean, in good condition & well classed. If only one or even twenty people produce the finest Combing wool & send it home with every advantage, the chances are ten to one that they would not produce nearly the same prices as the Germans would for the very same sample, & for the simple

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