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Show WOOL DEMAND IS INCREASING Production In Peace Times Is Only About 50 Per Cent of Amount Used by Mills. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) War has given the sheep and wool industry a stupendous task. The wool produced in this country furnishes only about 50 per cent of the amount used here by woolen mills in peace times; the war has increased the demand for wool, and of course accentuates our dependence de-pendence upon supplies from foreign countries. The war has further Increased In-creased the perplexity of the domestic situation by making unavailable certain cer-tain supplies which exist In other parts of the world. To equip 2,000,000 soldiers sol-diers and clothe them for one year would require the entire quantity of wool grown annually in this country, even If It were all suitable for military usa. |