| Show NATIONAL WOOL MARKETING corporation more information on the place utah will occupy in the pr program octye national wool marketing corporation to give the wool growers the control in the marketing end of their business they have long sought has been announced by jame X A hooper of salt lake secretary ot of the utah state wool growers and director ot of the national corporation mr hooper also also has information on tholow the now marketing agreements in the national organization program utah Is in district 2 other in this include montana wyoming colorado and arizona this area will have tour four directors in the national corporation the present temporary directors representing the district are in addition to mr hooper A A johns arizona M E stebbins montana and J 1 B wilson wyoming who Is secretary treasurer of the bor corporation po ration tho the district in which utah la Is included produced pounds ot of wool last year As utah in ig ono one ot of the leading leadin grange range wool states of the nation and has been active in the development of cooperative endo endeavor avor in various branches ot of its agricultural industry the state la Is expected to take an active part in the new wool selling program last year wool clip amounted to pounds giving the state fifth fifth place among the states this clip came from sheep sheepy at the beginning ot of 1930 1 the U S department of ag agriculture rl culture utah had sheep a slight blight decline from the number reported last year the states wool clip was pounds more than the tha state produced in 1920 when a clip of 0 16 pounds ame came fr from m sheep there are now approximately more sheep la in tho the state stale than in 1920 wool harvest came in 1928 when pounds were produced the low year was wal 1922 when production amounted to only pounds utah wool growers are displaying much interest in the new wool marketing program says mr air hooper it Is quite apparent that we will meet with success in la this new wool marketing undertaking and it may be larger than any of 0 us have ever anticipated 11 the oal woo wool marketing machinery established by the federal farm board Is to carry to the wool growing industry the purposes of 0 the agricultural marketing act ot of 1929 the two principal alms aims are to eliminate ruinous speculation and competition from the field of wool selling in considering the existing wool marketing methods la in the united states the farm board observed that lesa thin than 10 per cent of the nations clip was being handled by cooperative associations this volume approximately t p pounds was wag being sold on the market by sly six different organizations many of the cooperatives being assembling agen clim only volumes handled by wool cooperatives varied from less than a million to more than pounds the count rys largest wool cooperative having this last amount some of the private wool houses have controlled in one season more than twice tho the volume handled by all of the cooperr tives combined hence the board decided tho the first stop should bo be along the line of centralization of grower selling effort as a means of doing away with the competition which had developed among the cooperatives on a recent visit to utan utah frank J hagenbarth president of the national Nat local wool growers association of the board of direct directors orri of the corporation and chairman it tho wool and mohair advisory to the federal farm board ex presed the belief that the new mew wool sales agency would control the marketing of at least 25 per cent of the tha country j s wool clip this ivr br this MI give tho the wool corporation a tut nit perron tage rt ct the clip to be a strong market factor tor for tho the farm board estimates that control of 15 to 20 per cent of the do production of uny any community Is sufficient to exert a strong market stabilization influence |
