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lit 45 cents for the Tunis wool, 50 cents for the cross-bred, and 60 

 cents for the reg-istered llami)shire and Shropshire wool. Roth 

 agents rei)orted that the Tunis wool was highly undesirable on ac- 

 count of the large amount of brown hairs which it contained. These 

 brown hairs lo not take stain properly and are not suitable to make 

 white yarn. The Boston market accejited the cross-bred w<>u\ as 

 liighlv desirable, but discounted the Tunis wool 18 cents a pound 

 below ])rices for good grades. The Chicago agents reported a dis- 

 count of 10 cents a pound in the cross-bred and 15 cents a jtound in 

 the Tunis wa^ol below that of Hampshire and Shropshire quality. 



The increase in weight of wool between .\rizona and eastern 

 points was quite pronounced. No rain had fallen in Arizona within 

 twenty days from the time of shipment, although the precipitation 

 on that day was .20 inches with a trace the day before. Table XV 

 shows the relationship of the Arizona weights and after storage in 

 Boston until November 10, 1917. 



TABLE XV. — WEIGHTS OF WOOL AT ARIZONA AND BOSTON, 1917 



The wool increased 37 pounds on an initial weight of 713 

 pounds, which is approximately 5% of an increase in weight of the 

 wool. The value in this increase in the weight of the wool was 

 $21.78. or 62% of the cost of marketing. This amounted to more 

 than the freight on the wool from Arizona to Boston. Other figures 

 secured from private shipments of wool indicate that somewhat 

 larger increases may be secured. 



It is highly interesting to note that there is much less dis- 

 crimination between good and inferior wool in Arizona than at the 

 large markets. This suggests that local dealers believe in buying 

 wool sufficiently low to yield a profiit on almost any grade of wool 

 which may be purchased. The total expense of marketing 74,^ 

 pounds of wool was $34.90. which is approximately 4.7 cents a 

 pound. When the increase in the weight of the wool is taken into 

 consideration lJ-4 cent a ]iound would be sufficient to send the wool 

 lo eastern markets. In one shii-nieiit of wool it was found that the 



