WOOL PRICES
GROWERS SUFFER HUGE LOSS IN U.S.A. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright WASHINGTON, March 3. The Department of Agriculture estimates that United States woolgrowers lost nearly 46.000.000 dollars income in 1938 compared with 1937, in spite of increased production, because of the fall in the price of shorn wool.
The value of shorn wool was 71,378.000 dollars, compared with 117.270,000 dollars. Shorn sheep numbered 46,726,000, compared with 45,928.000. The weight of wool a sheep averaged the same both years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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78WOOL PRICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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