Excerpt from A Method of Determining the Clean Weights of Individual Fleeces of WoolAn almost complete absence of printed literature descriptive of scouring small quantities of wool necessitated the gradual evolution of the method herein described. At first it was decided to scour whole ¿eeces. A wooden vat was constructed in a manner which simulated the three-bowl scouring machinery used in commercial plants. Baskets made of hardware cloth were constructed to fit tightly inside each of the three 'bowls' so that. After the wool had been scoured the entire mass could be lifted out without losing any of. The wool. This method was Wholly unsatisfactory. The amount of wool in the volume of scouring solution was so large as to prevent free movement of the stock through the solution, a cardinal principle in scouring wool. Yet had thecapacity of the tubs been increased to permit free movement of the stock, the time required to heat. The water to the desired tem perature would have made progress very slow and the cost of all operations relatively high. Furthermore, it was found that a large ¿eece, when wet, was so heavy that two men were required to lift it from the tubs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.