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"George GciMes" is quoled in the New York Tribuno as declaring omphntïcally on Urn point: 'Nu! The buyor ot' wool, if ho bo a good judge, look fco tiie wool hc bnvs éntireiy wi;li roferonoo (o tbe qiinutit,v l;c vvill havo aller all dirt lias Ikii ri'iu ivp-1. In gfowing tin? fleece, dirt and j;;c;h ■ abouiitl, particulanly in iine wool. Tliis dirt and gi-oase is of no Viiliio to the nuuiufaoltirer, and lie eleauses it itll out of the wool befove niaking it into yarn. The grover of ihe wool may wash it on tlic ehcop, bul. he will ouly lako out a part of the dirt and grease, and will still leavo much tor the manufacture? to take out. 'The interests of all parlies will be best sorvcil by allowin' the manufactnrer to do all tliis work. ïho onlj' objecliön that is made to selling 1111washed wool, so-ealled, is that the buyer lneists on deUucting ono-thfrd from the weiglit, bocause the grower (lid iiot go tlit-oug-U tiic show of wasli!iS' the wool on tlie sheeps' xieks. In lliis the is utircasonable, ft no socli rule is of univoi'sally just applioatfon. Tli skilied Uiyer will look at the wool and makeiip liismind how much it will lose in Uie procesa of cleansing, and it' he knows the value ofapound ot' wool after it has been cleansed,he can make a fair oiïav for it ly the pou-nd, just as it omes uiiwaslicd i'roiii the sheop's bnck. rashing sheep is an old custoni, but it must fail beibro modern progress." -