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English Wool A discussion on the results of the _high price of wool in some technical papers throws unexpected light on the English produce. After watching an immense clipping on a station in New South Wales (where some of the team were shearing over zoo in a day) the sorter said to me in response to con- gratulation on his skill : " We don't begin to know what your people in Bradford know," yet this sorter could put each fleece into its right class, out of six, by just a touch and a tug at a morsel of the wool. Not only, does England handle three-quarters of the international trade in wool, but our farmers, though they cannot keep Merinos and think little of the wool -com- pared with the mutton, export wool to all parts of the world. One wonders if more might not be made of English wool on the lines of research undertaken some years ago at Leeds University. A peculiarly interesting account of English wool appears in epitome in the always excellent Farm Economs, of the Oxford School of Agricultural Economy, which als' publishes this week pamphlets on sheep breeding, milk market- ing, and Oxfordshire 'husbandry.. .. W. BEACH THOMAS.
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