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Show IDAHO FARMERS FIND RELIEF IN WOOL POOL BOI6B! Idaho Dec. 31- Idaho farmers, farm-ers, for the most part oWnera of -small flocks of sheep, pooled 2,181.0001 pounds of wool during 1 9 1 S and 192'J. accordtng to a biennial report issued I by the university extension division. I based upon reports from E. F. Klno- ilurt. f it-Id animal husbandman. This pooling of wool wa a long step towards the solution of me problem of, ; farm flock owners who had found dlf-j ficulty m getting their cilp on the market mar-ket iii less than carload lots. "In 1919 609.00O pounds of wool were marketed cooperatively, at a! gain of 48,?20 over what the farmers ! would have received had they goi.e 'Into the market Individually. In 1920 j more than 1,622,000 pounds of wool .were pooled, more than half of It through thp farm bure t us or In organizations or-ganizations connected with them- Sixteen Six-teen counties had wool pools. "The most of the wool pooled In 1920 was consigned to reliable commission commis-sion firms that do business on commission com-mission only. A small quantity of wool In the northern part of the ?tat la still In the farmers" hands and 255,-1 ooo pounds have remained in the warehouses ware-houses in the Boise valley awaiting a : market. A lew pools have received advances ranging as high ai 88 cenU a pound |