Show WOOL production IS TOO antiquated A ap I 1 IQ industry rapidly declining tn in utah and adjoining states on account t of improper handling of sheep upon the oce n of the banquet bendet d to men n of the legisla ture lure by the sa sal 1 7 ake commercial cl ib ih last bening J E cos griff president the continental national ba bo d the sheep industry Indu atry the euri mary which appeared in the salt lake Tri tribune bivie has caused euch such a demard for the ad drees dream in full that it Is herewith pre hinted in its entirety thio this may jot pot seem an opportune time to pres eilt a serious subject but the matter in I 1 of such much vital and press las ing importance that it can hardly avalt a more favorable opportunity when we think of the sheep industry of our state the vision of 0 a sack of wool appears before ua us that eack back of wool represents better than anything else the primitive state of the industry analyze th package and you will dle coer the vie crude method of the sheep men you will trace their troubles their faulta faults and anti the r nutting prejudice oc of the public A casual examina tn n of the contenta con tinta of a wool sack will show ehlt t approximately ont one third Is wool and ta thirds dirt grease and filth we will find in the eack sack more or leaa leas cf of the biord and skin of tho the animal which when decomposing emits an odor that compels a certain attention to the package A few years ago a traveling salesman entered a wool woo shed at fort steele wyo and fell asleep upon one of the sacks A little later he waa was heard groaning in hie his sleep and when one of the workmen awakened him he eald said I 1 oh I 1 am so glad you awakened me I 1 dreamed I 1 waa wits in ChIc chicago agol I 1 o 0 last an australian chanced to be passing through our city while on a tour of the world lie ife wae was fruited to address the co convention mention then in session he ile expressed astonishment that amerlia america eo no tar far ad advanced aneed in many industries particularly railroading should be eo so many years behind Ay astralla in its sheep industry approximately 90 per cent of 0 the land surface of utah 13 I 1 devoted to tha the sheep industry und probably pru bably millie alle we all live the by fir the greater portion of the state will be better adapted to sheep raising raisin than any other industry the geographical center of the industry Indu etry in the united state states la is id fit the vicinity of 0 croenne Cho enne wio n we may eay say it Is 1 more distinctively ively a industry than any other general agricultural industry Indu of the entire country the mines in the state of utah an arp bald said to distribute in pay and the purchase ot of rup plies something in excess of annually and a like arnou amount tit 1 in expended by the sheep industry in the entire territory tributary to salt lake city Intino try pit lining the cheep sheep industry in the intermountain state states Is 1 declining and while I 1 have not the figures for utah I 1 know that the tax assessment asae num bera hers in the state of 0 wyoming have decreased from in 1911 to 2 goo in and in the elate of montana the decrease decre aee in one year hae been nearly 1000 nead england with approximately square miles lees leas than the state of utah hae has more than half an many sheep ae an there are in the entire united states they are of a clams 1 which brings delight dolight to the eye and profit to their owners in comparison comp arleon oura ours are little littie better than scrubs the united states produces only one halt half of the wool it uses and this situation altu atlon in the event of war might prove proe moat most aerl serl oua in the final 11 of any buel bust ness it la in net profits which determine its extension exten alon and it Is thia this lack of profit which has forced a curtailment of he business among the contributing causes of our present antiquated method the past protective tariff stands out most prominently if it you throw a man in the water a it lle life preserver pree erver he the will never learn to wim swim how flow tariff while this hould should not justify the udden sudden taking away of the life pre the fact remain remains stat at the very tariff which was intended to protect the did protect him yeara years aco ago box been the very influence which stimulated and encouraged the australian heep sheep men to develop the quality of their product and to scientifically prepare it for market to the roan man who studies wool ions long and seriously partisanship disappear and the wool tariff become becomes a matter of business 1 and not of politic it Is unfortunate that wool tariff tariffs should be the gull uh eject of political wr wrangle anglea ij Is it not curious that thit a one no treat great political party claimed that a tariff waa was alces sary eary while the other claimed it ass of no material benefit and strange too that experience under condition conditions ot of protection prote alon and free trade has failed d to enlighten us bat the wool tariff h haa its been called the enerica Mn erica of schedule it X I 1 the fact 1 Is that until the methods of our foreign competitor competitors are adopted no one can determine whether or nt rint a tariff 1 Is really eaarl the himself wa led to believe that the tariff aas his him very salvation and he funds to bend send lobbies to washington to protect what he maintained were hie his rights attention pl the past wool tariff was a specific duty and originally based baaed upon the assumption that wool woo shrank tw two 0 third thirds in the process of c cleansing I 1 the australian wool groer in order to reduce in effect the excessive american amerlean tariff sent to this country only the beet best qualities and the slightest test shrinkage wool woo dy by these method methods he gradually cra dually reduced the tariff in effect one half and by scientifically preparing the wool for use at the source he neutralized the other half practically peaking speaking he crowded the american wool upon the bargain counter and no tariff can adequately protect a product upon a bargain counter the tariff issue diverted and distracted the attention of both producer and co neumer it la Is waste in various forms that Is 1 destroying the sheep industry DOSS dogs in the east and coyotes coyote fl in the west ba have bae e caused a it low loss beyond computation in protecting the industry Indu etry against waste we are in reality protecting the con consumer numer because it Is in upon him that the ultimate coat cost munt fall the people of utah are b both th producer producers and consumers and the the subject 1 of prime prim e importance the sheep men in belling selling their lambe lambs each year usually retain the culls 11 about 5 per cent of t the h e w whole hole what think ou on become becomes of those culls 11 in other lines of lh livestock estock the beat best are selected to perpetuate the species not always no with aith the areep the ahe epman hae box been justly charged with some abua and unjustly with many more ile has been charged with burning the forests and tu to have filled the insane asylums with hie his herders ilia tits sheep are said to have polio ned the gram for the cattle rattle and haic bae polluted the provide water for our citler remedy li 14 proposed for the methode methods I 1 f the ehe epman there la to a remedy it to I 1 a moat most simple one nothing new or experimental haa ham been applied in australia AUH for many leara am it la Is an australian sharing shed coating costing but a few thousand dollar dollars it Is to the industry what a needle in 1 to a BOW w ing in machine it ie Is the key to the door these theme aheda sheds are RO so arranged that the sheep are for a few hours before shearing it so ens the oil and he be shearer ran can operate the shears without injury to the sheep something like the carpenter who uhn by putting oil upon a nail can make it penetrate the hardest wood va the pens are no so well lighted and limply arranged that all necessity for abuse Is 1 ob slated and the standard atan dard of labor elevated there la Is protection for the on the night following the lorn loss of their fleeces and wt n they are cold and hungry the abuse of the present miserable makeshifts ne me call shearing pens are ao so great that humane have taken steps to punish the offenders it adema a pity PRY that the sheep have no weapon of defense the brutal cruelty practiced upon them thorn we hear much about the pollution of our streams in the early spring time god mede made die vie sheep clean aa he did other domestic ani main 1 and it Is only when they are confined to In closures or buffer suffer in handling that they become unclean after the abuse of the wranglers anglen wr ina the cubi cuts of the allear hearers ers at the shear ins inc pen ren a herd of sheep across our streams on the way to the summer range ranges leave a tou toll of car camies and it la Is the theeo that pollute our tr earn amm and not clean healthy sheep eliminate the cruelty at thi ahearne pens and ou will hear litt fit about the pollution of our water valita of clean wool the value of clean wool depends almost wholly upon the length strength rotor and Ine nene of the individual fibers or unfix different D kinds of wool are for different purpose purposes much the same as dt deferent forent kind kinds of boj are fin fine wool will make fine cloth but coarse wool cannot be pun spun into fine yarn the bet best grades of wool in a utah wool sack are sometimes worth twice aa much ax the inferior interior craded AS ther there Is a wide di fforence la in the value of wool from different classes of sheep 0 so o there Is 1 a wide w ide difference ference betge between eza the continued from pace one woul Is to am all ai r continued from page one are w wool e 01 growing upon the adeis and back of the sheep and that from prom the belly and legs it t doa doca not requite a cl manufacturer to tell us how important it la is to keep the different diffen difre nent ent valura segregated for itse at the mill min nor mor la in it neica ary to that the different val vai uca ties will be separated pepa rated for the purpose of intelligent eale sale wool in the wool ack sack an as you ilea it at present can be pur haach d only in a way an and equably IV important the different va values lues can nev novel i afterward be perfectly separated the tank task of 01 pr preparing par I 1 it for or aae se tt the mills otton re q quiren tr w aweeka au s and nd month months in eastern warehouses aea the W warn JI tri back sack of wool cannot be stored 13 to advantage advant ace in warehouse warehouses and money borrowed upon it because bause it require handling while the properly prepared wool can be moored in warel jaee ives and money readily borrowed upon it the aue aus system in regard to the wool simply means preparation at the source the hearing shearing poi pen the different values we are gated sated and baled in short the wool ie is reliable and ready for or ue use perhaps equal to the direct advantages arc are the indirect the system teaches the ahe heegman he epman the comparative baltes val jea of diff different rent cl 1 ss m of wool it berds to the prodoc production tion of a better claas of sheep because it forms a a pecuniary re recognition upon the part parl of thu the purchaser of the better prade grade |