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Show AVOOL OF OWN SHEEP GIVES CLOTH TO EASTERN FARMER Starting with the object of providing pro-viding Vice President Coolidge with wearing apparel of native wool, a Massaehussetts farm bureau now plans to have the entire clip of wool owned by the association manufactured manufac-tured into cloth and sold locally. After the national election ,the farm bureau in Berkshire county, which had pooled its wool clip and had stored it with a cooperative association, as-sociation, arranged with a local wool en manufacturer to have some of the selected wool woven into cloth. A tailor in the county made an overcoat over-coat for the Vice President from it. The Franklin County Farm Bureau, Bu-reau, not to be outdone in a matter of this sort, arranged to have made from selected wool a piece of cloth which was afterwards made into a suit of clothes and presented to Mr. Coolidge. This bit of enterprise on the part of Franklin county people suggested the idea of manufacturing all of the wool in their pool into cloth and selling it locally to farmers far-mers or others who might be interested, inter-ested, which would result in all wool growers getting a fair price for their wool, and the local people having the satisfaction of wearing clothes made from virgin wool from their own sheep. Farm bureau officers regard re-gard this as a possible solution of handling at least a part of the wool clip held' in the various county and stats pools, especially in New England En-gland where the grower is so accessible acces-sible to the woolen factories. |