AMERICANS STUDYING WOOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 5

AMERICANS STUDYING WOOL

CO O REBAT 1V E At AH K ETING

SAN FRANCISCO, February 23

Expansion of the research programme of the recently created Division ol Cooperative Marketing in the I nited States Department of Agriculture to make a nation-wide study of the cooperative marketing of wool has been announced by the Department, following a two-days’ conference at Washington with representatives of 29 of the leading wool co-operative, organisations in the United States.

The meeting was the first to ho called by Secretary Jardine under authority of the Co-operative Marketing Act passed by Congress last year. Secretary Jardine assured the group of the Department’s co-operation in their work, and that the Department was eager to he of help to them in working out their practical problems in handling the production and marketing of wool, Chris. 14. Christensen, in charge of the Division of ('<>-operal live Marketing, made if clear at, flip outset of the meeting that the Department was not authorised to promote the formation of co-operative marketing organisations* and flint it did not urge tin- adoption of any pye-cuncived form of co-operative association, hut that ii was ready in give assistance and advice to organisations already in existence or in process oh formation m connection with functional activities.

The Department's extended plan of research will include the collection and analysis of data on the business set up of wool co-operative organisations over the country, a study of membership problems, studies to measure the benefits of co-operative marketing of wool, and of the demand for different types and qualities of wool. The delegates to the conference asked the Department for the fullest information obtainable on the domestic and world situation of wool, promotion of the United States wool grades, and the extension of market information. Considerable interest was expressed in the application of the Intermediate Credit Act to the co-oper-ative marketing of wool as described by A. C. Williams, Farm Loan Commissioner. and in the application of the United States Warehouse Act. which was detailed by H. S. Yolie, in charge of the Warehouse Division of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.