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Show UTAH LEADING IN WOOL MARKET Utah is one of the three leading states in the cooperative marketing market-ing of wool, it is reported by the United States department of agriculture agri-culture in a study of the 1927 wool marketing season. During the 1927 season approximately 20,000,000 pounds of wool were sold through cooperative channels and about one-half one-half the total cooperative activity was in three states, Oregon, Ohio, and Utah, the department reports. The 20,000,000 pounds of wool is assigned as-signed a sales value of approximately approxi-mately $7,000,000. The department bases its 1927 estimates on reports from 53 cooperative associations handling wool either exclusively or as a side-line. Three-fourths of the 1927 volume vol-ume was marketed by about 20 large-scale or state-wide associations, associa-tions, and one-fourth by more than 70 independent local associations and local pools. .The total number of members, including consignors, in 1927, is estimated at 23,000. The greater part of this membership was in associations in the Mississippi valley states, where farm flocks are numerous. The associations with a large volume of' business per member mem-ber were located in the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain and Pacific coast states, where the range wools are produced in large clips. |