Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-07
WOOL AND SHEEP.


the following from the Kentucky Live Stock
Record. The great wool interest liz just now
in the United States in very peculiar con-
dillon. The largest shear ever male in the
country If the one Of this year. Prices were
high in March and April. Then the mar
kets were bare Of wool, but the prices had
been made by the purchases of the winter.
As soon as the clip of this year began TO Of
fer, manufacturers stood of, and would not
buy, and now for two months or more, north
and south, east and west, the buyers and
sellers have differed 80 widely that but a
small portion of the crop Of the year, as
compared with ordinary years, lie marketed.
Sellers hold off for higher than the offered
prices, and buyers forbe,r to buy, to lower
them. This leaves the market in the mos,
uncertain state. The great rise in wooden
goods OF las, winter, justified large prices tor
wool, but both the prices of wooden cloths
and wool have declined. the future must
determine what will be the markets for both
There is no outlook for lower prices Of
wool in Europe. II has advanced in Eng
land and it is maintaining its portion, Al
there is short English crop, owing to a
great decrease in the sheep Of Great Britain
Much wool is drawn by that country from
her colonies in Australia and New ZEALAND
but the official report for 1880 shows that in
Australia there has been decline Of three
millions of sheep there since 1873. This
will give less wool for England, and for the
whole world from that quarter. There has
been decline in the number Of sheep all
over Europe and Asia whence wool come:
TO European or American markets) in the
last three years. Hence the supply thence tt
be drawn is lessened,
The only countries OF the world that hav,
increased their number Of sheep are the Uni
ted States and Canada. They this year hav'
more sheep than ever before, and have THU
year the largest clip of wool ever produces
in them. But even in the United States an,
Canada sheep and wool have not increased
in proportion to population. For man.
years wool and mutton have been too low t
encourage the requisite growth of sheep.
strong change began last year, both in bet
ter price for wool and greater demand 70
mutton. The rapid increase Of our popula
ton will keep this up, whatever may be tn
issue in the present sharp contest, as to tn
price wool, which is being brought between
wool producers and wool growers.
In The nature Of things, high prices 70
wool in Europe, growing out Of email
supply, will force high prices in woolel
cloths. This must act on the wooden good
trade and manufacture in Americs, an
maintain here good prices for all the form
Of wooden manufactures.
Nov, il the wool growers can maintain
their position and keep out OF the marks
they must receive good prices for this year
clip in the end.
A few weeks since there was meeting j
BOSTON of the Executive Committee of III
Wool Growers Association, for conferenc
with the representatives Of Wooden Mani
facturers' Association, as to the matters
common interest between them as TO WOO
growing and wooden manufacture. Tn
Growers Association is one whose object
to secure protection to American wo'
agains, the importation Of foreign wool. Fo
some years there has been an undentandin
between the growers and the manufacturer
to act in concert for protection. But in th
nature OF things the wool grower has u
certainty of continued support for protectio
for WOOL on the part Of manufacturers uh