Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-31
WOOL GROWERS
FINISH LAB0RS
OFFICERS WERE ELECTED AT
THE CLOSING SESSION YES
TERDAY AFTERNOON.
ADLER READS PAPER
Local Dealer Tells Assembly How to
Prepare Fleece For the Market
Place and Time OF Next Meet
ing Determined Later.

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With the election of the officers for
the ensuing year the Iowa Sheep
Breeders and Wool Growers finished
their labors in Ottumwa and adjourn
ed until such time as the officers fix
for holding the next annual meeting
as well as the place OF holding same.
The officers chosen were:
President-C. w. Moore, Cedar.
First vice president-A. ]. Blakely,
Grinnell.
Second vice presidents. H. Lanes,
Eddyville
Third vice PRESIDENT. NJ. Hart
ley, Salem.
Secretary. e. Warner, Bloom.
field.
Treasurer. w. France, oska.
loosa.
The afternoon session was charac-
terized by the reading of number OF
excellent papers treating on the sheep
and wool culture and were received
with intense interest by the growers
present who drank in the substance of
the papers with satisfaction. The
growers were given to discuss the sub
ner and asked many questions for
their own special enlightment. Among
the papers presented at the session
was one by Clint X. Adler, of the firm
OF Silberman Bros, treating on the
Preparation of Wool for the Mar
ket." This paper was full of needfu1
| hints to the sheep and wool men and
told them things essential to success
full dealing in the fleece business.
Adler Reads Paper.
Mr.. Adler prefaced his paper with
few remarks regarding the standing
OF America among wool growing coun-
tries and the comparison was not fat
tering to the native.
The Sheepmen of the United
States,' said ne. deliver their wool to
the market in a worse state of prep
aration than does any other country.
Gr;at Britain leads them all in produc-
ing and the methods of the forefathers
OF the present day wool growers Of
England, are used today. There has
been no Improvement, but the wool is
delivered fully as good as it ever was
and there is none better. ireland has
the cleanest wool and as well put up
! as any country. Even the Turks, the
half civilized tribes of Asia Minor, and
Eastern Siberia do better than the
American And from Morocco and
the deserts of Northern Africa, the
wool is packed and graded as well as
the wheat is graded in Chicago.
Even in China they know how to
do things right, and a Philadelphia
manufacturer knows just what he is
buying when a certain grade of China
wool is offered him. The woods from
the East Indies are. no exception and
come to market well packed and grad
ed and credit to the people from
whence they come. From the@n new and
largest wool producing countries, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, South Africa and
the Argentine Republic, the woods
come in such uniformly good shape
that 1t would be almost an impossi-
bility to make any improvement.
Competition Is the Cause.
There is reason why all these for
eign woods should come in such uni.
formly good condition and honestly
graded and packed, and the reason is,
that they are competitors in the mar
kets of the world They realize the
fact that to obtain the highest price
they must maintain standard Of ex-
cellence equal to their rivals and all
try to do the best they can in this re-
spect. In this country where all the
wool is used at home there Is no such
friendly competition or rivalry for
the reason that there is duty of lie
per pound en- all woods that compete
with the home grown article. With
| this lie duty, however, many woods
grown here sell for 10c per pound and
below, Or less than the duty fixed on
similar woods grown abroad.
Lack Of Care.
| "In preparing wool for market there
are. Of course. two ways. the wrong
way and the right way, and it is the
latter we will try to explain to you.
In the care OF the sheep one would
naturally expect to find the first fault
with the wool. and this is the case.
| If the sheepman is careless or for
other reasons allows his sheep to be-
come bury, if by i'll feeding the sta
pie shows tenderness. if the sheep
pect to realize full value, for he will
be disappointed. Good care is the only
preventative for these conditions.
Shear at Proper Time.
when the season has arrived for
the wool to be taken from the sheep
and prepared for market, the opera
ton may be classified under three
Misunderstanding, tying and pack
| ing. The shearing should take place at
the right time, not too early in the
season, as the cold will inconvenience
Fthe sheep, nor too late, as many
breeds are apt to commence shedding
their wool at the first sign Of warm
weather. Where possible the SHEEP
should be tagged and the dunglocks
kept separate and this is done better
before than after the fleece is shorn
The wool should be sheared carefully
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