252 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



vaiiia till' raist'is of wool hold tlit'ir crops until spiM-ial wool buyers coiiio 

 in thore and ixWv them a premium price for it. If the slieep breeders of 

 Indiana would prodiu-e a <juality of wool tliat would justify us in lioldin;; 

 this until a for('ij.'n buyer would conio in here for it. and we would decide 

 to have a certain price for oiu" wool we could ;;et it. One tliiufr that is 

 the matter with the Indiana Wool (Jiowers' Association is that we are 

 an association in name and not in fact. Each member sells his wool 

 independently of tlie others, and we do not have any system or as.socia- 

 tion in our business methods. Again, we do not try to produce the same 

 quality of wool a.nd then seek out the best markets for it. 



Mr. Mills: The buyers through the northern part of the State sort the 

 wool closely. They Avill go through the fleeces and give one price for one 

 fleece and another for another fleece. A flock that has been raised about 

 the strawst.-ick will have a fleece full of dirt. Another flock has been 

 kept differently, has l»eeu illy cared for for a while and then put on forced 

 food, and the wool will not be uniform. Still another flock Avill be well 

 cared for from the start, and they will have nice, even, clean wool, and 

 for this the farmer gets the highest price. No grower can produce a 

 regular grade of wool unless he keeps his flock on the same kind of feed 

 and gives them the same kind of care all the time. The price of the 

 wool will vary five and six cents a pound. an<I this in the very same 

 flock. 



President Thornburg appointed the following committees: 



Auditing Committee, G. W. Harshbarger and I. M. Miller. 

 On Resolutions, Uriah Privett. Mortimer Levering and I. .M. Miller. 

 Nominating Committee, Mortimer Levering, Josiah Strange and Fred 

 B. Hartman. 



Adjournment. ' 



SECOND SESSION. 



The second session was called to order at ten o'clock Friday morn- 

 ing, Janiiary 8th. by President Thornburg. 



Mr. Strange: I want to make a suggestion in regard to the in.spection 

 of wools. I should like at some meeting to have a man get up here and 

 show us the different grades of wool and explain all aliout them and give 

 us the prices they should Ining. That would enlighten us. I have been 

 a wool grower for the greater part of my life, and I can not tell much 

 about these different grades of wool or the prices they should bring, 

 because I have had no way of learning how to do this. The person selected 

 to sbOAV us these grades should take samples of the different wools sent 



