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Show UTAH TO LEAD IN WOOL MARKETING The National Wool Marketing Corporation, Cor-poration, creature of the Federal Farm Board, is expecting active leadership from Utah, one of the highest range wool producers among the states, according to James A. Hooper, Salt Lake secretary of the Utah State Wool Growers' association. associa-tion. Cooperative marketing, reports Mr. Hooper, was set forth by the Agricultural Agri-cultural Marketing act of 1929, to eliminate ruinous speculation and competition in the field of wool selling, sell-ing, and to stabilize wool prices. In the past, less than 10 per cent of the wool sold, or approximately 27,000,000 pounds annually, has been handled by cooperative agencies. F. J. Hagenbarth, president of the National Na-tional Wool Growers' Association, estimates that the new agency will control at least 25 per cent of the clip this year, thus exercising a powerful pow-erful influence on the market. "Utah wool growers," says Mr. Hooper, have always been leaders in cooperative plans of this kind, and are displaying considerable interest in the new proposal. It is apparent that we will be successful." Utah is in district 2, together with Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona. This area will have four directors in the national convention. Present temporary directors are: Mr. Hooper; A. A. Johns, Arizona; M. E. Stebbins, Montana; and J. B. Wilson, secretary-treasurer of the corporation. corpora-tion. This district produced 88,480,-000 88,480,-000 pounds of wool last year. Last year Utah's wool clip amounted amount-ed to 19,764,000 pounds, giving the state fifth place among the states. 'At the beginning of 1930, Utah had 2,507,000 sheep, a slight decline from the number reported last year. The state's wool clip was 3,594,000 lbs. more than the state produced in 1920, when a clip of 16,170,000 lbs. came from 2,410,000 sheep. There are now approximately 97,000 more sheep in the state than in 1920. lUtah's largest wool harvest came in 1928, when 22,072,000 pounds were produced. The low year was 1922, when production amounted to only 15,900,000 pounds. |
