WOOL IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 105, 24 June 1911, Page 7

WOOL IN AMERICA.

A good many people in Australasia entertain hopes that tho American tariff on wool will he reduced if the staple is not placed on tho free 'list. Those who know anything of, the matter will readily admit that if the Americans wore free to buy wool in Australasia they would he very good customers, and the price of wool would advance materially. ■ Practically the whole American nation needs wool, for except in some few States the climate dining the winter months is very se\ere. Tho present duties arc very heavy—indeed, they are almost prohibitive, consequently the purchases of foreign wools hy Americans is restricted to certain special classes, and at best only a moderate quantity can lie taken. It must not bo supposed that the Americans are not wool-growers; it is because they do produce a certain quantity of wool that tho Customs protection is so heavy. United States there are about 57,000,000 sheen, and we. may take it for granted tiiat they are of a good class. But lite wool from this number of sheep is Insufficient to meet the demands of the people, and so a vast amount of shoddy is sold as “all wool.” Notwithstanding this, the, textile industry of the United States is progressing, the “Mercantile Gazette” points out.