The Old And New Way Of Scouring Wool

Our ancestors scoured their wool in tubs, much as our wives and daughtërs acour our clothes today. In the hand washing of wool, a tub was filled with the suds, in which or two men with long polea stirred the wool untü clean, when they lifted it upon a traveling apron, which carried it between a pair of rollers which squeezed out the water. The same principie is applied in the automatic scouring now in vogue. Great f orks or rakes seize the wool as it is carried by rollers from a feeding apron into the iron tanks, and by alternating motions of their teeth give it a thorough scouring. Thus cleansed, the wool is delivered by rollers to the drying machines, where hot air and great fans are now utilized to extract all the