Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-12
MISSOURI wooL-GRowERs.

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| Annual Meeting of the vool-Growers' As.
sociation of Missouri-Ofice GERS Elected
for the Ensuing Year-The Big Sheep
| Shearing COntest-Synopsis of Pres1den'
| Wallace g Address.
/ SEDALIA, Mo-, April 6.-The Wool-Grow-
ers' Association of Missouri closed theiI
/ annual meeting last evening and adj
| Journed. After the shearing at Sicher,s
Park in the afternoon, the following Of
| hcers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, George 81. Wallace, Fayette;
vice. president, L. E. Shattuck, Stansber-
ry; secretary and treasurer, N. 81. Gentry.
At the meeting last night President Wal
lace delivered an address on s'The Wool
Industry" and papers were read by L. E.
Shattuck on Feeding Sheep" Har ry Nc
Collough, of Fayette. on ssCost of Wool in
Missouri" DR.. Paul Paquin, on Diseases
| of Sheep"
The following is synopsis of the an
nual address of President Wallace:
| The decline in the value of our product, and
| the resultant declination of our f1ocks, began
| Immediately upon the legislation of 1888 ia k
| ing effect, and it must be conceded as natural
result of such legislati n; hence the wool
growers must be excused If they mix politics
with their wool. and they have done for the
past three years in all meetings of their as
sociations from Oregon to California on the
west, to Texas and Vermont on the east.
The National conventions held at ST. Louis in
1885. Sc and 'S7 pointed out the injurious eff,
feet of the law of 1885, and as matter of right
and justice, asked for it's repeal and the enact
ment of a law which should be equivalent to
the act of 1867, under which there had been
continuous advancement and fair measure of
prosperity An equivalent of the act of 1867
was asked for, and for these reasons: Improve
ments which had been made in machinery had
been such as to entirely change the classified
tons which then existed. At that time cots
void and the other long woods were the only
woods which could be combed. To-day, merino
wool one and three fourths inches in length is
successfully combed. To-day the duty wool
is 10 cents per pound, and the duty on woolens
value not exceeding so cents per pound.
is 35 cents per pound, and 35 per
cent. ad valorem. A specific duty of 35 cents
per pound is to Offset the duty on WOOL and 35
per cent. is the manufacturers protection. The
ways and means committee, under pretense of
redu ing the tariff place wool on the free list
and make the ad valorem duty on woolens, 40
per cent, thus increasing the protection for
the manufacturers nearly 14.3 per cent. The
excuse for this bill is that there is surplus in
the treasury, and the revenue must. therefore,
be reduced. We are glad to know that there is
a surplus and not deficit, but may not diff
fer in regard to the manner of reducing the
revenue?
There were twenty-seven entries at the
shearing, which was conducted by the
State Board of Agriculture, and the result
is said to be highly gratifying, as follows:
L. E. Shattuck, Stansberry, Mo-, merino
eve, 2 years old; weight, 90 pounds; fleece,
% pounds - ounces. F. A. Scott, Hughes
vile, Mo-, southdown eve, . years old;
weight, 143 pounds: fleece, pounds. L..
E. Shattuck, merino ram, l year old,
weight, 10S pounds; fleece, 20 pounds. l.,
E. Shattuck, merino eve, 2 years old;
weight so pounds; fleece, 81 pounds 2
ounces. Harry Mccullough, Fay
cite, 3 years old; weight, 81
pounds; fleece, IS pounds 10
ounces. McQuitty & Jaynes, Hughes
vile, Mo-, shropshire eve, 1 year old;
weight, Isl pounds: fleece, Is pounds s
ounces. McQuitty & Jaynes, shropshire
ram, year old; weight, 147 pounds; fleece,
II pounds ounces. j. W. Cole, Sedalia,
cotswold ram, 1 year old; weight, $50
pounds; fleece, 8 pounds II ounces. f. A.
Scott, southdown eve, year old; weight,
so pounds; fleece, pounds ounces. Nc
Guilty. & Jaynes, shropshire eve, 2 years
old; weight, 206 pounds; fleece, II pounds
8 ounces. Major VIM. Gentry & Son, Sc
daiia, cotswold ram,1 year old; weight, 100
pounds; fleece, pounds, u ounces. F.
old; weight, 1O7 pounds; fleece, 6
pounds ounces. J. W. Cole, cotswold
ram, 2 years old; weight, 1877 pounds;
fleece, IL pounds F. A. Scott, Hughes
vile, aged southdown; weight, 1S4 pounds;
fleece, 8 pounds s ounces. McQuitty &
Jaynes, shropshire ram, years old;
weight, 203 pounds; fleece, II pounds
ounces. L. E. Shattuck, merino eve, 2
years old; weight, 116 pounds; fleece, 81
pounds II ounces. Harry Mccullough,
merino ram, 2 years old; weight, so
pounds; fleece, II pounds. Major VIM.
Gentry & Son, southdown ram, year old;
weight, 11S pounds; fleece, 7 pounds 6
ounces. N. HI. Gentry, Sedalia, merino
ram, 8 years old; weight, 112 pounds;
fleece, % pounds 4 ounces. Major VIM.
Gentry & Son, southdown ram, year old;
weight, 113 pounds; fleece, pounds. N.
P. Bennett, Lees Summit, cotswold eve,
3 years old; weight, $50 pounds; fleece,
IA pounds ounces. L. E. Shattuck,
merino ram, 1 year old; weight, III
pounds; fleece, % pounds ounces. G.. H.
Wallace, Fayette, shropshire ram; weight,
172 pounds; fleece, 5 pounds 2 ounces. c.
B. Bennett & Son, Fayette, cotswold ram;
weight, 272 pounds; fleece, SO pounds. L.
E. Shattuck, merino eve, years old;
weight, 100 pounds; fleece, % pounds II
ounces. L. E. Shattuck, merino lamb, 2
years old; weight, 155 pounds; fleece, 80
wounds o1,poaS