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Page 215 - Two patients weighed the same at the end of the year as at the beginning. The greatest gain recorded was 25$ Ibs., while the smallest was half a pound.
Page 423 - Russian camel's hair, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece. Egypt. Syria, and elsewhere, excepting improved wools hereinafter provided tor.
Page 423 - Class one, that is to say, Merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States...
Page 42 - Reports of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the position of the. First report (Nov., 1916). The German Control Stations and the Atlantic Emigrant Traffic.
Page 444 - ... per annum. In some sections of the United States there has been a steady decline in sheep production since the earliest statistical reports. This has been true also in every other settled country except Great Britain. The explanation undoubtedly is an economic one. In general, the primary purpose of sheep growers has been to produce wool. This can not be attained profitably on high-priced land. Naturally, therefore, with the increase in land values there is a rapid decline in the number of sheep....
Page 445 - ... large and unattended where sheep are kept. POSSIBILITIES OF SHEEP RAISING IN INTENSIVE FARMING. An indication of the probable development of sheep raising may be obtained from a study of the data concerning British agriculture and live stock. In many respects the agricultural conditions of the fourteen Northeastern States of this country are comparable with those of Great Britain. Both areas contain a large amount of nonarable land and have large populations and manufacturing industries.
Page 84 - ... added to the price of the wool. Pooling by growers is advised. — Growers who desire to do so will be allowed to pool their clips in quantities of not less than minimum carloads of 16,000 pounds and consign the wools so pooled as one account to any approved dealer in any approved distributing center. Growers are urged to adopt this latter course through county agents or others, thus eliminating the profits of one middle man. Government price.
Page 151 - Class C. Persons who are not regular users of national forest range and who do not own improved ranch property.
Page 421 - Resolved, That the mutuality of the interests of the wool producers and wool manufacturers of the United States is established by the closest of commercial bonds — that of demand and supply; it having been demonstrated that the American grower supplies more than 70 per cent of all the wool consumed by American mills, and, with equal encouragement, would soon supply all which is properly adapted to production here; and further, it is confirmed by the experience of half a century that the...