South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-22
INDIANA SHEEP AND
WOOL GROWERS MET
Interesting Session Recently
Held at indianapolis Out
look Encouraging

Al the annual meeting OF sheep I
producers and wool growers from 81 /
counties i'm Indiana which met at
Indianapolis recently much activity .
was manifested in the sheep bust |
ness in Indiana as Indicated by the
rel orts Of individual representatives
from various parts Of the state F.
Edring the past year 81 county
farm bureaus have completed sue
cessfully from one 10 three sheep
projects. At this time breeding
ewes will sell at public auction from
SIS TO $40 per head.
On a Paying Basis.
The meeting was called 10 order
by Chairman T. l. Ferris. Pleasant
Lake, Ind who said: Indiana sheep
business is now on a paying basis. /
The feed. the breeder and the pro-
dIcer of all market lambs and wool
should feel encouraged Many of
our lambs have gone 10 market at
rrice Of 10 to Il cents per pound.
During the entire past season CO
operative shipping associations have
done much towards helping farmers
with small hocks TO get full value
for their lambs. Cooperative ship
ping associations have done much 10
improve the quality of the lambs IN
Indiana because il encourages dock
ling and caStraung. Whenever a
farmer sells his lambs through the
cooperative shipping associations ne
soon realizes il. pays 10 dock and cas-
trate. Farmers that sell THEN
lambs 10 local buyers get the same
.
lambs as they do for those locked
ID and castrated, even when the open
market makes two or three dollars
/ per hundred difference on this alone.
Likewise cooperative wool market
ling is helping farmers TO get fun
value for their wool Especially l.
/ this helping the producer OF good
Understandable wool
Reports from individual wool grow
! ers showed that so percent of all
/ farmers marketing wool cO-opera-
lively in 1921 were well pleased
with the results This discussion
drought out the fact that two classes
OF producers were not satisfied with
cooperative wool marketing. The
/ first in this group are those farmers
producing seedy, bury and wool OF
similar character. The second class
in this group are those growing sec
enc class woods. If this class of folks
waLt to be benefited by cooperative
wool marketing they must grow bet
tor wool and of more merchantable
Quality.
The meeting adopted the policy
outlined by the Indiana Farm Blu
reau with regard TO handling wool in
if922. The points in regard TO this
policy may be stated as follows:
That Indiana would continue
cooperative wool marketing in 1922
/ by merchandising their wool direct
/ from the farm TO the manufacturer
through the Ohio sheep and Wool
! Growers association warehouse. Co
Ilumbus. Ohio.
p That only members of Counts
Farm Bureaus could sell wool through
;his plan.
.. The manufacturing OF raw Wool
into finished products was made iol
.hcme consumption only. The lndi-
ana Farm Bureau doubts the advis-
ability of manufacturing raw WOOL
into finished products and merchan-
'Gising the same in competition Win
agencies already established. The
manufacturing OF raw wool into
blankets for home consumption IN
Indiana has already been arranged
for
Representatives from the Ohio
sheen and Wool Growers assOcia-
ton were present. J. T. Walker, a
,,-~,t,e, Of fbfs DELEGATION discussed
national legislation. The Individual
wool growers also asked Mr.. Walker
many questions regarding the hand
ing Of Indiana woods at the Ohio
warehouse in 1921.
Perry Crane. secretary of the In
diana Farm Bureau. told the farm
,rs OF The policy of handling woods
In 1922 and also about manufac-
turing blankets for Indiana Wool
Growers