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Show Dealers, Growers To Present Wool Marketing Views A proposal to license dealers in wool and mohair, under which certain cer-tain trade practices which act to reduce returns to growers would be prohibited, is being considered by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Admin-istration. Hearings on the proposed license will begin July 2, and a hearing hear-ing will be held at Salt Lake City, July 23 and 24. There are about 470,000 farmers and ranchers in the United States engaged in the production of wool and mohair, according to William Peterson, Utah extension director, who says while there are about 275 buyers of wool in the country, 12 to 15 of these dealers handle 85 per cent of the entire wool business. "Wool growers have been seeking a marketing agreement for some time as a method of restoring their incomes to parity," said Mr. Peterson. Peter-son. "However, dealers have been unwilling to discuss a marketing agreement, so that project has been slfelved, and a license dealing largely large-ly with fair trade practices and selling charges is being considered by the government for discussion at public hearings at which both growers grow-ers and dealers can present their views. "The two provisions of the license that are of particular Interest to growers are the one requiring a licensed li-censed dealer to confine his transactions trans-actions either to consignments, or to outright purchase, and the other which would base deduction for 'tags' and other off-sort wool on actual condition of the lot, and not on a flat average basis. "The first provision would remove the grower's fear that the products to which he has title may not be marketed as advantageously as products pro-ducts to which the dealer has acquired ac-quired title. The second would remove re-move the dealer practice of giving arbitary flat average deductions from the basic price for 'tags', but would require them to base any deductions de-ductions on the actual condition, of each lot of wool." . n |