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Show I CANADA SETTING PACE FOR' U. S. IN" WOOL PRODUCTION S HAs lost ssrrTs, II "Worse than eating our overcoats" is the complaint about shipments of ewes and ewo lambs from the western west-ern states to Canada, which have drawn heavily on breeding: stock. Tho complaints, however, have stimulated stim-ulated efforts for jrreater aid by ! Uncle Sam for the sheep industry. .. i In contrast to Uncle Sam's neglect ' I before tho war Canada had begun a systematic campaign to increase her wool production. Sheep thrived on the ranges of Alberta and on the great stretches of virgin prairie awaitinc the settler, and the climate was reported ideal for wool growing. But high pricos and large profit to tho farmer are credited to the cooperative co-operative selling system, endorsed by Secretary Motherwell of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. Mowever, according to reports re-ports to Clay, Robinson & Company, a live stock commission house of Chicago and other cities, tho great problem lies in the fact that no ewos, no matter how old they may be, provided they can go through the winter and raise a lamb next spring, are being shipped out from j the western slopo of the Rockies, |