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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER -- storms, or whether there has been any disease among the sheep. Any of these things effect the comdition A weak and staple of the wool. weak means a wool staple staple yarn and a weak piece of goods..-Buyerof goods insist upon having them strong. Buying Instructions. After1 the buyer has given a description of the wool to his firm, then the buying orders are given on a certain clean scoured basis. It makes no difference whether the wool will lose in shrinkage 60 per cent or 65 per cent, it is bought on a clean scored basis. For instance, if we make up our minds that we can pay $1 clean basis for a particular kind of wool, we telegraph our man that he can buy JWWiWWftVViVt'BViVs" j . Wool a Quick Asset The largest producing states are: Wyoming, producing in round numbers ....85,000,000 lbs. Montana 22,000,000 lbs. Wool is a commodity that al- - Idaho 21,000,000 lbs. ways has been and always will be Utah 16,000,000 lbs. required for useful and practical Texas 14,000,000 lbs. Most of us look upon We imported in the year 1922 in purposes. wool as a commodity that is used round numbers 376,000,000 pounds principally for clothing, such as of wool. This, added to our own dress goods, suitings, overcoatings, production of 261,000,000, makes a hats, underwear, stockings, sweat- - total of 637, 000, '000 pounds. The ers, etc., but we forget, or do not receipts of wool at Boston alone dur- know, about the many million pounds ing the year 1922 were 196,000,000 of wool used for paper-makefelts, pounds of foreign wool and 191,- piano felts rubber boot linings 000,000 pounds of domestic, making cloth tops for overshoes, billiard a total of 387,000,000 pounds; or covers, casket coverings and 61 per cent of the wool imported probably greater than anytting else into this country and produced in is the use of wool for cloth linings this country came to Boston. This of automobiles. shows the importance of Boston as In our own country we produce a wol center and the resources that today about 250,000, 000 pounds of ar necessary to handle the business, wool, and we are using or have used The importations of 370,000,000 in the last three years, an average pounds in 1922 compare with an of about 700,000,000 pounds, and as annual average in the past ten years a consequence we have to import of about 350,000,000. In some years 60 to 70 per cent of the wool we during the past decade importations consume. As wool is purchased in reached about 450,000000 pounds. Of course the population of this our own country by the merchants or. manufacturers direct from the country has materially increased in or the accumulating points the last thirty years, and yet the in the West and South, on a de- - production of wool has decreased This is due to mand or sight draft basis, a great some 25 per cent. deal of financing' has to be done, several conditions, among them be- and here is where the support of the ing that the land in the West is banks is invaluable to the merchants being utilized more and more for and the manufacturers. The same tilling purposes than for grazing, holds good of the wtoo1 which is im- - and nlso we are consuming more ported; it must be financed on a let- - sheep and lambs than ever for food. ter of credit or draft basis, and if An average of about 1,000,000 it were not for the liberal support sheep and lambs per month are which the merchants and manufac- - slaughtered for food. Hirers receive from tbe bants, the , shrlnkage. importations would not be as large, rl hrinVa dirt Ths - - 2$? ttat'SST S5foJ& merchants of Boston ilrge support from the banks, not only of New England and New York, but all over the country. A Quick Asset. It is a., unwritten law that any good wool merchant should and does borrow all the money he needs to handle hs business, either from his own institutions direct or by placing his paper through note brok- ers, so that it is distributed pretty generally throughout the country. Wool paper has been recognized as bearing the very finest names and being among the best assets that a bank can have as security for loans, It has always been a quick asset, and it is seldom that a piece of wool paper is put up for actual renewal. Wool accounts must be a valuable asset for the banker, as I judge that the free balances are large and loans are not asked, for more than months in any one year, and years must go by when the not asked for a loan from are banks their wool customers. 800,000 Owners ot Sheep. Roughly speaking there are some800,000 American farmers and stockmen who own sheep in this coun- - greater wliwr atentia tt! of wool. growth In 1922 the production of wool in the United States in round num- In bers was 261,000,000 pounds. was it earlier, four years 1919, 314.000.- 000 pounds, a decline of 53.000.- 000 pounds, or 17 per cent. As far back as 1894 it was 348,- In other words, we pro- duce in this country only about 75 per cent of the quantity of wool we produced thirty years ago. The average weight of a fleece of wool is Just a little over sevenso there are some thirtyfive to forty million sheep in this county at the present time., New England produces only about 1 200 000 pounds of wool, sheared from about 192,000 sheep. " f old-fashion- ed 7 have le dX dif-grow- er, Vi IT ' TjTlt cent in the pas, three years. age ,laat J3 useable after being cleaned andput in shape for yarn and goods. We pay freight on practically 60 pounds of dirt and grease, as nearly all of our wool is shipped fr0m the West in the greasy state. Wool is sheared once a year, with exceptions in some states like Cali- fornia and Texas, where the sheep are sometimes shorn twice a year, jn the spring and fall. The way of shear- ing was with the hand shears, whereby a shearer could clip 75 With the modern fleeces a day. way of machine clippers about dou- ble this number can be shorn, or 150 fleeces. The finest wool we get in the The cli- world is from Austraila. mate and conditions are such that the sheep are grazed under the most favorable conditions. They have no severe winters, the sheep do noi have to be sheltered and they graze in a grassy country which makes the wool clean, light and attractive. It is quite different Irom our conn- - 1000 At 37 Cents, to whether we get the wool land-tabed in Boston at $f per clean pound, When we telegraph him that he can buy this wool at ?1 clean basis landed in Boston, he figures that tjii s particular wool will lose 60 out of Dounds of ease etc Ld L order to buy at $1 clean basis it means 40 pounds of clean wool for every $40, or 4q cents per pound in grease! Fstimatinsr 3 cents for freiaht would means it would have to be A bought at 37 cents per pound. shrinkage of 1 per cent means a ferenCe of 1 cent per pound in the grease and the shrinkage of 1 per cent more than estimated would mean $10,000 on 1,000,000 pounds of wool A wool buyer has to be an expert t0 determin whether a lot of greasy is going to lose in grease and dirt 60 pOUnds 0r 61 pounds out of Sometimes the gVery 100 pounds. estimates of shrinkage are several Der cent instead of 1 Der cent out of the way 1919 statistics showed a The aS Vs therels on.7 tHoJ'nTon an Iv $ .80 1.50 3.25 5.25 100 200 500 It then depends on his judgment " " SP In nth sr words, ft. s 1,000,000 pounds, more or less, on this basis, rs Errecognized 3 irgeST SHORTHORN HERD IN UINTAH COUNTY George A Slaugh and Sons Davis ward pUrChased the cattle belong- in tQ jhe Enos Bennion estate Tbese together with Nelson Merkley herd bought some time ago and their own herd of pure bred stock iveg them the largest herd of Short- orns in Uintah county It payg tQ raige pure bred sheep and as fagt ag possible every Basin farmer should change to the pure bred tjme ' Every Basin farmer has room for a farm flock of sheep. Sheep are a two crop proposition, wool and iambs Properly arrange for it and allow your oy t0 iin the Boys larab cl1- - H w111 lear lot I s n y01J- - Will Raise Sorgho Cane In the Ouray Valley J. H. White of Ouray valley while Vernal on business Monday and Tuesday and attending the Ouray Valley Irrigation companys annual election stated it was his intention t0 raise a number of acres of sorgfc- um cane this year for the PurPse Mr. of manufacturing molasses. White, who thoroughly understands the makinS of sorghum, tried out a cane which is raised, in Texas and had excellent results in 1922 and 1923- Their sandy soil gives a rich mellow product and about 200 The heads of Eallons to bhe acrethe cane aso make excellent poul- try and stock feed. - MANDERFIELD REPORTS HIGH PRICE FOR LAMBS The most capons grown today are raised in New Jersey and Massa- chusetts. At the present time there Highest prices for Utah cattle and is a good demand for capons. Uin-si- x sheep for the year were received at tah Basin farmers should learn the Salt Lake Union stockyards dur- - pon raising. ing the week, according to J. H. Manderfleld, general manager of the order to establish Steers Irom the H llmau ca-ma- ny yards. Hompoutry must he tkcre always something to and 8el1- bPh?u5ed brought 9.75 the hundred lambs from 'H. E. Tuft, Elsinore, be to have d)iHnr thft wlnter and The latter $11.75 the hundred. from the barns. Mention Our shearing begins about the price is the highest paid for lambs flrgt Qf Aprfl and endg about the m any market in the United States FARMER flrst Qf July s0 that practically in this year, Mr. Manderfleld said. jbree months the wool trade must gnance the entire years supply. . tbe wooi moyes quickly jjogt as soon as shorn, as West tbe jrom tbe facuities for Btorage in ware- bouses are not sufficient to take care TbIs wooj t8 shipped in of Jt jpa(j j0g on a draft attached to the of ading About the flrst of January we majing our preparations to go If a firm intends int0 the West. to buy Arizona wools, its represen-pound- s, tative starts about February first, The flrst thing he does is to go to the different ranches and ascertain the condition of the wool, whether the sheep have had a good winter, whether there have been any severe to' - . car-000,0- be-th- at . . "THE UINTAH BASIN when angering adver- - |