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Show Less Wool Used. Reports from manufacturers as received re-ceived by the bureau of markets, de- j purtment of agriculture, show that I there was less wool used in February I than at any time since such statistics have boon compiled. The February onsumption amounted to 27..r00,000 pounds in the grease, compared with 6.1,700.01)0 pounds in February of last year. Strikes which shut down mills and the inabilily of small mills to secure se-cure wool because the wool sold by the government at auction was sold on a cash basis, furnished the reason for the small February consumption. |