Show Wool Tool Still Ranks as Major Industry Sheep-Raising Sheep Pretty Well Spread Over Globe Washington Under Under Turl ey s re recently coolly announced five your year plan wool production and ammi manufacture mi fact u re will III he amon among the four major Industries encouraged by the government It Is that hit the wool Industry In Industry industry Is s Included In the new 1 lurk url Ish sh plan because use wool Is one of the world worlds s basic bisic commodities says n a bulletin from Crom the be r Geographic Geo GeographiC Geographic graphiC society A meeting of all the world s wool cool growers gro ers would woul repeal a motley of all nil creeds and colors from Icelanders to South Couth Africans from Canadians to Ar Argentines from Siberians to Indians There aiso would be present natives of many manyI I of the islands of the sees seis ue ues the bulletin Sheep raising Is pretty prelly well con confined confined tined fined to the lie temperate rones Sheep do not Ill III e a ever very veri cold countries nor nordo nordo do they thrive well In the tropics except e at high altitudes Sheep Population The worlds orl s sheep population Is Ismore ismore more than a 00 a a quarter as great as the human population The annual world orld clip of wool Is more than enough to fill 1333 1 one ton trucks Australia although n a comparative youngster In Ule lie wool Industry Is the world worlds s leading wool producer India and China artlie are the outstanding sheep countries of Ash Asti Argentina Ar and ancl Uruguay hase hae hav ha e the hea heaviest lest sheep population In South America The greatest lon con of ot sheep shep herds berds In Is along the Mediterranean coa coastal zone from Gibraltar to Tunisia and andin andIn In South Africa t I very countr country of oC raises ral es sheep but In Norway or l lorway way Sweden weden and I Inland there are few flocks scattered 0 over oser er side Ide areas The United Stiles Stites with up upwards ards of o head of sheep Is the on only Iv country In North orth Amer ca that has taken to wool growing In what hat could be called a bl big is v iy y About four fifths of the sheep In Inthe inthe the United Stiles States t les grate In the lie mountains and on the plateaus and west est of ot the Mississippi rh river riser er As In the case cise of ot cotton cotlon Kist hist sri ans and naturalists have been stumped by the query hen and where here was sins ns wool cool fi first used Sheep and wool are tire I 1 In the Bibee BI BIble Bible bee ble and It Is known that the Ram nom Romans nomans arms ans practiced sheep breeding Some of their prize price animals wore jackets to protect the fleece The growth gro tb of or the wool Industry Indus Industry try Iry In time the United States has been phenomenal By 1810 just two t centuries after the first sheep ep arrived from fug I land there were sere sheep grazing 0 over oser er the settled ar area or of eastern United States Owe Much to Sheep To To sheep many regions of the tie world wood owe osse at least their Cry and for or these and ani often have been the compani companions companions ons of pioneers W In a few remote regIons ot of the United States Slates homespun Is worn factories have almost entirely entire entirely ly Iy erased the home homo Industry from this country One of ot several hun hum hundred dred modern American Ing companies normally W GO wool mills that employ cork ork e era I Wool Wool greatly differs In quality Time The same brec breed of sheep In the same country may produce different differ different different ent qualities of wool The best grows on a sheep sheel s shoulders and sides 11 hen a n sheep Is sheared the fleece holds hols together Tim The hole then Bien Is tied and n with other complete fleeces Is placed for tor ship shipment meat ment In n bas babs containing from lot to t 00 oo pounds each eich At At the factory expert worl orl men sort the wool cool Some sorting ta tables bles are covered with Ith wire Tire Ire nett In through h which dust and anil other loose foreIgn matters falls while white the time sort sorters ers tear time the fleeces neece In some somes cool s growing grossing countries wool 1 ts Is washed before It Is I sheared from Crom hit sheep Unwished UIl fleeces I trease from the sl 1 lu In In- In of the and ani animals animals pals mals After Arter sorting the wool is Ib I scoured by bv passing It ft through a fi crie se Ee serice rice s of ot vats of arm v arm soapy From the washers It Is Conveyed convened to dr ln In rooms and thence to curd ud lot rooms where U It begins vs the I Journey thit th ends In woolen cloth and other wool cool products Worsted orsted fabrIcs arc are made of ot yarns whose fibers are parallel p while woolen are made of fibers crossed and mixed ml Foreign mutter milter that cannot be washed from rom the fleece Is de by chemicals Burrs Durrs are arc re removed removed removed moved by machinery Wool Is constantly moving In commerce Although the United States produces about one one- tenth of the worlds orld s annual wool clip It Is only a little more thin half of the time wool required by b Amerl cm cloth and carpet manu ers ens American manufacturers m call upon the wool growers grocers of ot Au Argentina Uruguay South Africa China and ind many miny less im important wool producing countries for additional raw material mg land Is the leading Importer of ot wool for most of ot the ho export port wool from frolD all the leading wool cool producing re regions glons gions of oC the globe Is shipped chipped to British markets Much of ot It Is shipped re-shipped re- re reshipped reshipped shipped to other countries london I ondon Is the hr cst wool market of or the world |