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Show Position of - Wool In Sheep Husbandry. A Michigan,, Experiment Station j Bulletin says: Can sheep husbandry ! be made profitable by disregarding entirely en-tirely the wool product? In some few ! favored i localities such a course of sheep -husbandry may be made profitable, profit-able, but under ordinary :, conditions the wool product contributes materially material-ly to the net income from the flock. Iri some instances breeders of mut-; mut-; ton sheep have realized as much for ' their wool as the men who have been t keeping sheep primarily for the wool which they produce. In making such i a claim it should not be forgotten that ' the American ir.a-tin rhejnst.:bjrve not been 'glutted wuh a fee "supply : of the medium and ' coarse grades . of i wool, while tha scarcity otiflne wools. owing to the common stock of tha country being .largely Merino grades, ' has nut bseri apparent until within ' the past fw months, although a few 'of ".the brec-uurs ol Merino sheep hava-1 hava-1 persteceialy prophesied that former conditions would'-rc-tiirn, --and that the ; grading up- of fjec&s. for the production produc-tion of the finer grades of wool would again profitably engage the attention 'of American sheep nea. . Fashion in i the manufacture of woolen - fabrics,-! fabrics,-! which, has always J.ecn a potent fac-!. fac-!. tor in the priee-of diit'erent grades of .' wool, has seemed' to encourage' the i growth of medium and coarse wools. : While the future of the wool industry ! will be settled by conditions almost ! entirely beyond the control of the ! growers of this country, still eyery-1 eyery-1 thing points to a brighter prospect ': for the wool grower than for several years pasuand especially for the pro-i pro-i tlnrer nf fine Delaine wools. |