Show SHORTAGE ON WOOL APPEARS PROBABLE anglish mills are arc consuming product at rate bate unprecedented in years 2 not only is there prospect ot of a wool shortage in this countr but tor for the first time in many years the united states Is exporting instead of importing wool according to F J hag engbarth en barth president of the national wool growers assouta 1 elation I 1 J mr hagenbarth has been in chicago and other eastern et ci ties on Du ou siness for about thirty days and has made the most of his opportunities to raudy the wool situation in commenting on wool condl condi eions A h said recent cables from loudon london indicate tha the price of creating grades of wool are ad very rapidly blank sweaters and clothing sul P table for army purposes are ordinarily made from cross bred wool three eights and one quarter blood being the most popular for these pur poses oses the enormous number if men under arms in the pres nt european war hits has created L very strong demand for wool for or army purposes and these wools have risen as much as 30 per cent in value during the last three weeks france and germany were previously great wool manufacturing fac turing countries but now most of the french mills are closed down and Franc ethere fore is in forced to obtain her supply of woolen goods from great britain this also is due of belgium the outside demand together with an enormous home demand has started a period of activity among the woolen mills of 0 great brit nin ain that is said to be greater than at any time since 1873 1813 necessarily the vast call for certain ertain grades of wool has ha about exhausted the supply of those grades now on the for efen markets and wools aro dually actually being exported from toston boston to london to meet the rl inand dundei normal conditions vo had in the united states domestic wool to keep our mills busy until about shout february 1 but if the ane foreign demand keeps up we probably will see a pronounced shortage hortage in this country before the first of the year it was learned that germany has agents buying wool in london and exporting it to stockholm and from there it was sent to germany of course an army can not flent without adequate clothing and in order to shut off the german supply of wool the british government lills has issued an prohibiting the exportation of any wool at the prea time it Is not known whether the embargo extends to the wool of south africa and australia but if it should de celop that it does the wool growers in the united states will have every reason to expect very high prices for their next years crop |