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Show YEAR'S SUPPLY ' OF WOOL HELD Boston Leads Markets of Nation, With 156,000,-000 156,000,-000 Pounds. At ihe present rate of consumption, tt is oointed out in a o eminent bulletin recoivrd by M. f. Juytin. field agent of the bureau of eroo estimates, yesterday, tnere as sufficient wool held by dealers, manufacturers and the government in the United btatts, September 30. 10 laat for more than a year. The total figures as givpn by the bureau of markets was 7-9,-jT.i'ioO pounds, srease equivalent. This roprerents holdings n excess f those reported in any quafterty period since the reports were first issued. Stocks on Keotember 30 were S per cent si-eater than on June SO. 1!U0. and 50 per cent greater than stocks held on September 5o. 1918. The greatest increase in hoidmga Is shown in one-fourtli and three-eighths blood grease, amounting to t-.OOO.O'iu pounds. Because of the great demand for fins wools tiie reports show a decrease in fine and one-half blood grease amounting to 9.O"tQ.000 pounds, liot ii manufacturers and dealers hold more of all grades with the exception of fine wool. A decrease of U'yO'K'.Oi'K) pounds of fine woof holdings comparer! to June 30 is sIiomh for dealers' stocks, while manufacturers' holdings of tins srade increased 0,000,000 -pounds. Total stocks in the ha nds of dealers and manufacturers on September CO, 1919, in pounds, according to grades were: Grease wool, oSS,or.4.S92 ; scoured wool, 4 fi 1 60 ; pulled wool. 22.325.fi46 ; tops. IS. 732. 272: noils. IS. 006. 094. Stocks held by the government were: 17,790,000; pulled wool, S, 705, 000; tops, 1,445,000; noils, 10,-000. 10,-000. Boston holds first place among the markets mar-kets of the country with 156.000,000 pounds of ail kinds and classes. Philadelphia Phila-delphia ranks second, followed closely by Chicago. Manufacturers in Massachusetts bold 91,o0o.000 pounds; Rhode Island, 33,-000,000, 33,-000,000, and Pennsylvania, 29,000,000. |