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Show NORTn DAKOTA FARMERS TO AUCTION WOOL CLIP FAItOO, N. D.July 24 Co-oporu-tivo fanners' auctions will bo 11 unique uni-que feature of the marketing of North Dakota's wool crop this our Sheep shearing is over. Though no exact figures are iv;v tillable, it is estmated the clip will total 3,000,000 pounds. It is oxpeoted to be the largost wool crop in the historj of tho state Under the direetiou of county agents furmers will iihsomblo their wool in icntrul warehouses in districts throughout tho stnte TlieiV it will bo cleaned, sorted mid graded under tho supervision of experts. Hirers will then inspeot it uud it will be sold to tho highest bidder bid-der This method of iirrkoting bus been tried out in Iowa and Ohio. It is suid to have suved the furmers us much us ten eonU u ouud. If It saves the farmers of North Dakota only fivo tents it will moun $150,000 in increased increas-ed profits. Two reasons aro given for the increase in tho wool crop. Importations Im-portations have added n third to the blm' pppuliltgu of tho stnte in the last venr, and tho standard of flocks lias been unproved by the stuto distribution dis-tribution among farmers f 1' the iat three jciirn of purebred rams. Ijrge herds of merino grades nro run on the ranges in the wtMtern purt of tho stnte. Hut thu bulk of the wout clip will come from tho flocks of the small farmers. |