DROP IN INCOME
AMERICAN SHEEP FARMERS. WASHINGTON, March 3. The Department of Agriculture estimates that United States wouigrowers lost nearly 46,000,000 dollars income in 1938 compared with 1937, despite increased production, due to the fall in the price of shorn wool The value of shorn wool was 71,378,000 dollars compared with 117,270,000 in 1937. Shorn sheep numoered 46,726,000 compared with 45,928,000, and the weight of wool per averaged the same both years-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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72DROP IN INCOME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 54, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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