WOOL PRODUCTION
CANADA REPORTS INCREASE OTTAWA. Canada's total wool production dining 1940 amounted to 18.127,000 pounds ns compared with 17,846.000 pounds during 1939. Shorn wool production amounted to 13.822.000 pounds and represented an increase of 253.000 pounds over the 1939 clip. An increase in the number of sheep shorn was responsible for the increase in shorn wool production. Cash income for the 1940 wool clip is estimated at 2,329.000. a gain of 892.000 dollars over the cash income from the 1939 clip. Resulting from large Government orders for clothing of the Canadian forces. consumption of wool in Canada in 1940 at 101.616,000 pounds, greasy basis, was tiie highest figure in the last 10 years. Consumption in 1939 amounted io 64,900.000 pounds and the five years, 1934 to 1938. averaged 61,958.000 pounds yearly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1941, Page 7
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132WOOL PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1941, Page 7
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