Show WOOL TO afi western wool men were encourage ed by government solicitation and the inducement of war prices to increase their flocks and they are now seeking protection from a speculative movement to drive down prices in which imports and government holdings are being used to try and accomplish com disastrous result in the wool industry that Is vital to the whole nation with the beginning of the sear the war industries board has eone out of existence and marks the end of government control but this does not mean the industry shall not get favorable consideration A bill has been introduced in congress to give the president power to fix rates of duty arbitrarily to prevent clumping slumping slum ping markets against its own supply and incidentally protect western growers the work of the boston wool trading association is to be broad ned during the coming season and the warehousing system is to be continued for the protection of the growers under that system the grower consigns his wool to where it Is sorted graded and balled and then sold for him or guaranteed samples in some thirty varieties the grower gets all there is in his wool and has every incentive to grade up his flocks and permanently improve his holdings while the evils of speculation are eliminated |