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Show I i ENGLISH BUYERS TOLLOW 1 EXAMPLES Or AMERICANS i WASHIN'OTO.V, D. C, Sept 12. Iindoit advice received by the bit-reau bit-reau of markets of the depurtment ot I agriculture show that a waiting policy has lieen adopted by the Ilritiah wool I industry similar to that prevailing in this count rv. A statement issued by the bureau of markets outliuif this condition sa.vs "the general Itntish woool situation has uudergoue no improvement im-provement and a waiting jsilicy is le-ing le-ing pursued, according to the Imilon Times trade supplement for August 14th. However, the csucellatlon of orders has about ceined The outlook for liolh raw material nnd innnufse i tured goods is not promising. Forth I er "Kver since April of Inst jcar,' when buyers had tho opportunity ol securing wool at auction sales, thev have been expecting usera on the con- lincnt of Europe to come into the mnrkct ns competitors for rnw ins lorinl. Hut the finnncinl problem has proved to be nil imortant and traders trad-ers here have not felt that there was sufficient security to justify thorn in sending Inrgc truantities of rnw tus-trcinl tus-trcinl into Ocrmnny, in pnrtioulnr. "Absence of the devoloj)ment of a consumptive demand in I 'u rope, nnd the fact that new domostic elitm arc already on the b.nrkct in tho united Kingdom nnd in tho United States; that another clip in South America is nearly ready ; Hint the sale of the new Australian clip will commence in October, to lie followed by tho New Zealand new clip in Novctuhcr, make many believe that prices linvo nut even vet touched their lowest point. "This faet naturally retards the growth of confidence nt tho other end of the trade, for piece merchnnts, knowing the low prices which have already been taken for even finer qualities of tops for delivery sonic little time ahead, realirc that there is room for n more drastic ndjustmcnt in tho prices asked for fully manufactured manu-factured goods." Tattooing Hogs. Eradicating tuberculosis from entile ent-ile will practically solve tho problem of controlling tho disease ntnong swine. Thnt is tho opinion of veterinary veteri-nary experts ('XHrlcnccd in tho handling hand-ling and post mortem examination of swine received nt tho principal market mar-ket centers. Hy menus of n simple and practical marker bogs may bo tattooed with distinguishing letters and figures, and when dlseaso is found by 'xml mortem oxntnlnntion the identity of such animals is known. With a simple system of records it is thus iMHNtihlo to trace n shipment to the farm from which it enmo nnd stamp out infectious diseases nt their source. Evidence shows thnt swine become infected with tuberculosis principally from cattle, cither by following fol-lowing them in feed lota or pnslurcs, by receiving infected dairy byproducts byprod-ucts or by eating tuberculous oar-ens oar-ens c. |