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Show rLoslng a Hil!Isi Dollars C. .,,huUh of the Utah State Bankers Assomt.K.n. It won d be profitable for in tus action to put into praetice the suggestions made m this treatise. ThouSailj j ia.-s would be saved by. JS.-npete men. Wool (.railing Woo. has been a leading agricultural product In Utah since her '- Only three sta Wyoming and Montana produced more pounds or woo m 19-4 P J8.779.680 ir li"4" i " from 2.029.UUU sheep-average .'L, clothing wool of ?1.57 K a s,..nnKagf ot u, per ecu and tak..,. ihe iii ese i ouna to place it in Boston. m Kot" ' Cei'Ld ill til-.' j c;i .O 1' I'OStS . -J -U-ia l i. ! " ,.WUU aaditio:,, ca,, of the sheep to 2 fZTVL combing, 5 000,000 one-half blood V. ZiufZL and 3.2G1.000 tine clothing This on -Po,ltau;et clean wool-wculd total $9,909,635 using fine staple p. ce B5.3 cents one half stap.e, 54.6-thrJ -54.6, and fine clothing, 53.5 in the gease m Boston, an increase of $1,189 755. n,. Wool a, a loading product of Utah and other Western States has not. to date received the at,es, prc-paVatiou for market which it should receive. It is a product to be sure, which can be handles ':; i fro.?tterrransp"fed long distances and subjected to the most primitive methods of handling wjt 1 me to it uBoful nesa "han most agricultural products, yet it is a product used in the fine arts. ia luge bag of wool made up of millions of delicate flbers-the nature of which determines the h of The lo al Cuantitv. Fibers vary in fineness, or diameters, ,n length, in exterior or interior pi" p r e, in coioi. exture and uniformity, and in soundness and strength; and consequently ia v: material of the manufacturer of textile goods. , Wool ls used m the coa.ee and heavy material, as . pads, and in the fine and delicate textile materials It should, then, be g ven the care during g V the process of preparation necessary to make a firs class product in older that a proper prop ortion ,: used in the fine high priced goods and not be subject to all the adverse conditions which it will wlth ' still remain a commodity of commerce. Wool is subject to grades and should be graded. Wool is a " product of the farmer and the raw product of the manufacturer The farmer can deliver a high class, class finished productaccording to his interest and information. The grower of wool has had but little help from manufacturers since his product has one into w Wlien, in less than a century past, it was used in the homes there were no uniform standards, it " pa.ed to meet domestic needs only. In the United States the center of production has shifted slow ; the Atlantic Coast Slates to the extreme Western States, and wool did not remain a leading product la section of the continent for sufficient time to standardize. , ' The distance between the present center of wool production and the center of wool manufacture fa ik tance across the continent, and this has given oppotunity for the merchant to handle the product, to supiv ' to both the producer and manufacturer and in turn has left the producer with almost no information coi," the manufacturers requirements. The wool merchant has supplied the wants of the producers but k' doubtedly relieved him of the responsibility of properly preparing the product for market. Grading wool at the point of production by the producer is necessary first, to teach the requiren,, the trade and, second, to make possible the receipt of value of the .product. This does not imply a ' system of sorting which mav or may not be advisable but does require sufficient handling at shearine -to do justice to the growers' intelligence and repay him for hi3 efforts in caring for the product during thu,' twelve months required to isrow it. Tho Ameiicau standards of blood grades are merely trade names and, as used by the Department o! culture, are net too complex to introduce to the largest and to the smallest wool grower. They are Pin; hi If Blood, Three-eighths Blood, One-quarter Blood, Low One-quarter Blood, Common and Braid, accord!--the diameter of the fiber. These may be either combing length or clothing length. Usually, howem but fine and one-half blood are combing lengths, and fine, and one-half blood are both combing and Utah produces a great deal of both Fine and One-half blood of both combing and clothing lengths-ai bably no other opportunity is greater in money value than to change from large quantities of clothing wools tool' to-ol' similar fineness tout of combing length, which go into the manufacture of the finest and highest priced te goods. The grading of wool into these few divisions at the farms and shearing sheds of Utah is not difficult even if the dealers have occasion to change grades somewhat at their warehouses, it can be done with bat additional handling. The value to the grower of knowing which of the above named grades he io m-nj,,,;.' (j ihe realization that he can, by care of his sheep change from one to another to his benefit, will many tiisu 8 for tho effort to grade. A survey may show that combing wools are being sold for clothing vahies, which con1 I :f existiriiv, is the oaiuse of a loss of three to five cents per pound on the present market. iThe high shrinkage of wool clue to excessive dirt influences the buyers estimate of grades, and jr teaches the detriment of unnecessary shrinkage, while, as at present, selling by contract, before' the prod: grown i.5 not conducive to the proper handling of the product. It consequently must leave a margain tc dealer sufficient to pay all costs including interest on money advanced and also leave a margain of pront Unquestionably, the production of a profitable product requires the preparation of that product for u-and, u-and, as with all agricultural products, quality and cond.tion are the first requirements of the producer to-posiibie to-posiibie the realization of its value. Utah woo! growers need remove the impression of mist-ry and apparent complexity of the wool bir which do not really exist, and deal with the physical properties of wool as they affect its value. Fine, One-half Blood, Three-eighths Blood, One-quarter Blood, Low One-quarter Blood, Commoi Braid cannot be visualized quite as easily as 2 x 4 x 16 in the lumber trade but is as physically a trade nam' can be handled as cotton and other textile fibers are handled, with full and complete understanding of revalues, re-values, by the producer, and this is information which he 'will never obtain if he does not grade wool |