Excerpt from The Wool Situation, Vol. 26: February 24, 1954 Production of wool in the United States this year probably will be less than last. Output of shorn wool probably will decline since the number of stock sheep at the beginning of the year was down slightly. Fewer sheep and lambs are expected to be slaughtered this year which would result in reduced production of pulled wool. World supplies of wool for the current season are expected to be about the same as for the 1952-53 season. An increase in production is forecast, but stocks at the beginning of the season were smaller than a year earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.