Volume 71: Macarthur family papers relating to wool and sheep, 1820-1936: No. 189
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[Page 189]
they readily effect by careful washing, either on or off the sheeps back, in cold water - and the wool that washed, is said to lose only from 22 to 28 per cent in the subsequent scouring for manufacture and never to assume the harsh feel and stained discolored appearance, so strikingly observable in the generality of the fine wool of Australia after a few months keeping. In New South Wales, after the most careful washing in running water, the greater portion of the highly bad fleeces remain either in a dingy unmerchantable state, or if sufficiently "bright", so much charged with yolk, that in the course of a very few days after they are shorn, the fibres begin to assume "this harsh staring appearance", & to become so matted together & rough to the touch, that much of their beauty is lost. By Experiment we were [indecipherable]