Millard County Chronicle | 1915-12-23 | Page 16 | Woolgrowers Meet in Zion.

WOOLGROWERS MEET IN ZION. Favor Standardized Fleece and Demand De-mand Better Market. Salt Lake City. The national convention con-vention of woolgrowers in session in Salt Lake City, January 10 to 13, indorsed in-dorsed the idea of seeking a stand- fr ardization of wool, of petitioning the department of agriculture to fix a definite standard on which wool should be sold on the American markets, and ' further resolved: To ask congress to appropriate $300,000 to aid in gaining control over predatory animals and to ask the du-erent du-erent states to make appropriations for the same purpose. To urge the United States bureau of animal industry to conduct experiments experi-ments to determine the most econ-oniical econ-oniical method of feeding sheep on the range. To condemn the agricultural committee com-mittee of the house of representatives nt Washington for disallowing an appropriation ap-propriation of $20,000 for the establishment estab-lishment of an experimental farm, and expressing the hope that the senate committee would allow the appropriation. appropria-tion. That flockmasters have their wool graded at shearing pens. Pledged support to the secretary of the interior in the matter of laying trails through the national forests. Indorsed the work of the department depart-ment of agriculture as it relates to the sheep industry.