Abstract
THE report of the Council of the Wool Industries Research Association for 1933-34 refers to a 40 per cent increase in fees for private investigations as indication of the growing use which is made of the services of the Association by its members. Income from trade subscriptions has slightly increased, but an income of about £2,000 a year from the Empire Marketing Board has ceased. The activities previously financed by the Board are being continued and efforts are being made to obtain assistance from the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux. At a meeting of the Executive Council of the latter, it was emphasised that the work of the Association at Torridon should be concentrated on investigations of practical value to the grower and to the industrialist, and that Torridon should become a centre from which work on wool utilisation both as regards research and educational publicity for the Empire as a whole should emanate. Experiments on the nutritional influences on wool growth have continued in co-operation with the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, and have revealed accentuated differences between a group of sheep fed on a maintenance ration and one receiving a simple supplement of high energy value. Arrangements have been made for further trials of experimental wool packs, including the impregnation of jute packs with rubber latex to anchor the jute fibres so that they do not stray into the wool during transit.
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Wool Industries Research Association. Nature 133, 444 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133444d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133444d0