Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-09-28

demanding wool. In the consumption of wool the
United States is far and away in advance Of
either of the other great nations, for although
somewhat behind the United Kingdom In the
quantity required for her factories all that Is
manufactured here is retained for clothing and
other uses of our people, and in addition, vast
quantities of wooden fabrics are imported from
, qbrosd.- large percentage of the wool con-
sumed IN the factories of other countries is man.
ufactured for export and sold for beyond
their borders, giving the United States pre-emi-
nence MS wool-consuming nation.
The Mercado Central de Frutos, located at
Buenos AIRES is the largest wool market in the
world. This port and Bahia Blanca the great
southern Argentina port handles practically all
the wool grown In the republic. At shearing
son wool arrives .of sibs and trains
In 1873 the worlds sheep population
thing like 4O0000,000 sheep, whereas today the
number is approximately 6300O0,000 of which
Argentina has about one-sxth, being exceeded In
numbers only by Australia, which has SO 100000
to Argehtna's S0,000,000 The Uuited- States has
something like 55,0O0,O00 sheep, Asatic Russia
100000 and Great Britain and Ireland about
25,000000. South America all told, has more
than 100000 sheep, of which two-thirds are
In Argentina There ten sheep to every man.
woman and child, average of 90 sheep per
family.
Western Canada is coming to be a great sheep
country and here. where millions of acres of
grazing land adapted to sheep raising found, i
exists of the finest natural sheep-raising sec |
tons close TO eenters of mutton and wool con- |
sumption to be found In the world. The part |
Canada will play In answering the worlds de- |
mand for woolens is certain to be important in |
the near future, for farmers have caught the in
SEPARATION resulting from steady prices and a
heavy demand for meats and woods.
Our department of agriculture recently gave
out statement which reveals the real situation
in facts and figures. This statement was to the
effect that the production of wool in the United
States 1917 wa oSo |
pared with 900 pounds In 1914 and &c.,
10000 in 1913 In other words, while seem
to have lost little in production against 1892
we dropped off 100000 pounds In these two
years.
Promotion Of increased production of sbeep>un-
doubtedy is our great economic problem. One of
the paramount features regarding the present
shortage in clothing is due to the universal lack
Of propeI gradpg and caring for the wool from
farm TO factory Although the United States
ranks one of the leading wool-producing coun.
tries of the world thousands OF pounds of good
wool annually permitted to go to waste be-
'ause of the farmers slackness in grading and
preparing his clip for the market The present
educational program of the bureau of animal hus
'andry tends to remove this loss.
This means that the amount Of wool imported
annually by American manufacturers is equal to
more than one-half of the home grown clip. For
ign wool growers Australians in particular.
maintain a uniformly high-grade standard in the
andllng OF their woods. This care In preparation
or market has served to give that country a wool q
acked by reputation that readily insures 1t full
alue at the time of selling TO the manufacturer.
Our modern agriculture needs sheep more
heep. We need sheep TO meet modern practical d
onditions. Farmers positively do nothing
etter thnn enter sheep breeding with strain
ny, like the Shropshire. which have gained the Is
,putation of being, adapted to any sheep-raising
'gon Of the continent. and being the farmers
Keep, a rent-paying sheep, tenants sheep, a
oney-making sheep. woolproducng. mutton
irrying, quick-fattening and hardy sheep" This
reed is not only an economical feeder but. like
her improved breeds. good soil conveyors. They
e adapted to the most intensive system of agri-
iltrre.