The importance of the wool industry -- Wool fibre and growth -- Sheep -- Culling, drafting, shearing, branding, and dipping -- Woolclassing -- Practical lines on which to class ordinary merino wool -- Pressing and branding -- Farmers' lots -- Scouring, versus selling wool in the grease -- Scouring for market -- Wool buying -- Wool manufacture -- Sheepskins -- Fellmongering on the station -- Wool for show or competition -- Typical merino wool and the reverse