Show I I I IDAHO SHEEP MEN MEr MENi i fiGHT COMBINE I Will Cut Cutout Out Mid and Sell Direct to Manufacturers HOW WYOMING MEN ACTED SECRETARY OF NATIONAL ASSO ASSOCIATION HERE V George S Walker secretary of the Na National National Wool Growers association and andal al also secretary of the state board of sheet sheep totters of Wyoming and secretary I of the Wyoming Wool Growers ocl with headquarters arters at Cheyenne spent yo yesterday in the City in con conference conference ference with leading e ding wool growers end officials ot of the bureau of animal indus try He is en n route home from Boise I IIda IIda Ida where he met Monday and Tuesday I with the Idaho Wool Growers atlon which has hilS decIded to handle the balance of oC tb wool clip of Its members and cut out the middlemen The Idaho I charge that the buyers are area I In a combIne which has bas for Its pur pose the e of a few tew cUps clips at mar ket prIces and the squeezing of the balance at their own figures There Is plied piled up in the w warehouses at Boise Mountainhome Caldwell an ant other points several thousand bags of wool for tor which no offers have hao been made The growers are asking from U I cents up for their clips but the tho buyer buer say gay tho these e prices are from Crom 3 to i a and ti s scents cents higher than the wool is worth I ISer Ser Secretary tary Walker Valker states that at the BoI Boise e meeting the wool OI growers decided f to cut out the buyers and sell their wool I direct to the manufacturers F W V Good I ing o of Shoshone Ida wu was delegated to togo togo go to Bo Boston ton and make the financial ar 1 ra or 01 In other words to secure ecu advances on the wooL In th the meantime I the Idaho a association will hold sales days das I at Boise City Caldwell Mountainhome and other centers and give the buyers one more chance to buy the cUps clips at j what thE growers believe to be m market rk t prices If C the buyers do not buy th then n 1 I the wool will bo be loaded In the cars an and sent fo 0 Boston in charge of a compe I tent wool salesman who will dispose at t the clips to the manufacturers I How Beat Combine I If Ie the plan is Is successful the Wyoming I Wool Growers association m join In the m movement another year for the tho Wyo VO 11 recently had an e with the combine It was as at Rawlins The buyers had bad made no offers and I appear to care caro about buying wool at any price and this in face off of the fact act I that many clips were ere sold during the I previous winter for good prices 1 F I sealed bids were put In the prices rang ing from 17 to n cents and for the same II grade of wool that sold ld during the win winter ter at from 31 to 24 cents The growers to a man refused the offerings and im immediately mediately charged the buyers buers with form formin lug in a pooL The e Wyoming Yg Wool Grow Growers ers a association arranged to take Imme immediate 1 diate action whereupon prices suddenly i advanced almost the entire cUp clip of Car Carbon bon county selling at from 2 30 to 4 cents Prices in other parts of Wyoming ar arc aboUt the game as tho those e that bought I Ithe the Carbon countY clip About 75 per percent fr cent of the aM 1004 clip has been in Wyoming nc but the rowers growers feel that the I middlemen are not paying as much as i they should for tor the fleeces and another I year the tho Wyoming Idaho and Montana Wool Growers associatIons may join hands and put In a house of their own I and handle the entire clip of the three states The tendency ee everywhere is to cut out the middleman and some such united action as referred to will wUl undoubtedly edly be taken Flocks in Good Condition Secretary Walker states that the flock ot of V never were in better condi concU condition tion than iban at present The against scabies and ticks that has bas peen waged b by the state board of sheep com commissioners missioners the past three years e rs ha has com completely eradicated contagious diseases t from among the Wyoming flocks n ka which this year ear produced the largest clip and nd the finest t wool in the history or of the industry In IndustrY In that state The state state la lagoye laws goye governing the importation or of sheep to Wyoming from other StAtes are ver verb stringent but the authorities are det deter determined r mined that the dean clean flocks shall not be become become come Th These laws In addition to protecting the Wyoming flocks ar ara are a also o compelling other states to clean Vi up Idaho and Utah are now putting forth strong tron efforts to eradicate scabies and Oregon will at the next session ot of the legislature pa pass laws law that will enable the authorities there to do likewise Ixl a afew afew few years Wyoming will be joined on the fr free list by other states and alter after there will be a free Cree exchange of sheep between the states Organize Commission Company Secretary Walker and Vice President Wilson or of the National as recently completed their work with reference to the organization Of at a company that will put in independent commission hOU houses a at the several eastern markets On Jan 1 the men the rat rates from 10 to I 1 pot par car carload load Joed The stockmen protested and at the annual conventions of the National Growers and the American National Livestock tock association in Denver Denyer committees committe W were re appointed to watt walt upon the commission lon men to demand a ration ol of the old rues rates and failing to toe e establish independent commission houses The commission men refused to restore the old rates sa saying ln the they had been Ion Ing mo v and had to have hae larger arger corn com mi missions eions The committees s then visited the tho market centers and nd arranged for tor the care and sale Ie of stock and at It a meeting held heKl in Denver last It week e k the Cooperative Commission company was organized The company Is capitalized at 1000 and the sharps are re 10 each and only stockmEn can an become members members ot of the compan y Fully has already been en subscribed and arrangements arrangement are arenow arenow now w botin being made to nut ut In commission houses es at Chicago and Kansas lanas Ctt City Later h houses u es will be e established at South Omaha St Joseph ph St LoUis Sioux City and other markets It Is believed that tire commission men at their annual in Chicago in July will restore the oki rates Wants Law Amended Secretary y Walker Walk I is hopeful for the pu paa toaS ba c ot of the amendment to the twenty I el law which will wUl permit live livestock livestock stock stock to remain In the cars hours hour The Humane society people or of the east haY been fighting the tho measure but It has bas been shown them there will be less lees es under the proposed lew and that by extending the and granting oUter concessions livestock wm will be more humanely treated and they are gradually ti thel theil opposition wile Secretory Secretary Walker while admitting that some Improvements can be made In the iJ houses having visited one ot of the lar eat plants in Chicago only three weeks a ago o for the purpose e of ing it if conditions con as 8 pictured by Upton Sinclair lair n his novel ovel The Jungle were werd true feels that the producer ot of livestock will buffer e re loss 1088 a as a r ot of The wild reports The Tb attacks upon the packers w will J still further furtner the tho sale aale or our products In orel tan ds for f or p people ople will Believe aU all of the lurid tales of embalmed meats and aRd will demand that their ports t e closed to American products Hire at home the of meat and es 0 Me beef and pork hork will wUl show a marked markN tailing falling oft off in the next neat fete t w months montH All of this affects the producer r I most moRt of all Granting that certain condi conditions in th the packing houses should be cor corrected and at once till the tho situation Is Isan isan an unfortunate one for for producer of beef bee mutton a and d pork and nowhere are an tb these e pr producers ewa more vitally interested ted and affected that tal right here in n the tho Rocky Mountain states |