The Coconino sun., 1917-07-06
Range and Market News Pertaining the Livestock Industry Arizona
 Market Letter for the Past Week.
More Wool Campaign Given
 Strong Boost by Packers Actor

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 pleted and put into writing by the big packing concerns, Chicago has be- come the storm center of activity for the saving of the sheep industry from continued shrinkage and for steps to increase the country's wool supplies to remedy present famine conditions. A supply of eve lambs valuable for breeding purposes but now going for slaughter, estimated by some as 20 to 25 per cent of the lambs reaching the various market centers, will become available for the farms as the cam paign of the National Sheep and Wool Bureau to enlist farmers in sheep raising gets its full momentum.
 Packers offering their support in the more wool" efforts are Swift & Company, Armour & Company, Will son & Co.,, Morris & Co.,, and the Cud- ahy Packing Co. As memorandum submitted by L. H. Hyman of Morris & Go. states, the good news for the woolen mills, clothing manufacturers, dealers and consumers is this: "The representatives of the packers express approval of the purposes of the bu- reau and as a basis for their cooper ation willingness to divert from slaughter suitable breeding stock as it may be required"
 Instead of dog in their back yards people of the towns and sub urbs will be urged to keep sheep" reads a bulletin from the National Bureau. Country bankers will be in- vited to start lamb clubs, farmers in- stitute workers will be urged to em- phasize the certain and almost fabu- lous profits possible from sheep hus- bandry under present conditions, and farm papers will launch an enlistment campaign of new sort-not for soldiers, but for sheep to keep the soldiers warm in the trenches.
 Retailers of clothing have been warned by their associations that the wool famine has become so acute that nothing less than the most vigorous efforts would serve to avert an i'm pending shrinkage in available mer- chandise of most serious nature, and that this campaign must be dir ected at their customers and others, particularly farmers, to make the keeping of a sheep-chasing dog pub- lie disgrace and the keeping of sheep form of patriotism quite as important as the purchase of Liberty bonds and increase of gardens and farm crops.
 The National Sheep and Wool Bu- reau has been created, as the memo randum of the packers states, "to CO., ordinate the various activities now being made throughout the country to conserve and increase the rapidly dim finishing supply of wool and mutton" Figures cited to expose the shrinkage show that the country produces less wool than it did twenty years ago, largely because our dogs, permitted to roam at large, have caused farm flocks to be discontinued in farming all over the country.
 At meeting of one of the com mittees of the Illinois Council of De- fense the wool situation will have consideration from the data supplied by the bureau, with which the council has co-operated. Other states are taking action on this matter. Presi- dent W. B. Tyrrell of the bureau re- gently returned from Washington and eastern cities with information which caused him to redouble his efforts. He is the head of the Bradley Knit ting Company, of Delavan Wis, which has offered to finance boys lambs clubs in every state within certain limits.