Download or read book World Wool Prospects with Quarterly Statistical Supplement, Vol. 61 (Classic Reprint) written by U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from World Wool Prospects With Quarterly Statistical Supplement, Vol. 61 Quotations for domestic wool on the Boston market the third.week of May were 40 to 70 percent above the March, 1933 low point and were 70 to 120 per cent above the low point of July 1932, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Under the stimulus of changes in monetary policy, increased buying activitj and low spot supplies, wool prices made the sharpest advance in many years. The advance Was led by rapid increases in the West. Prices in foreign 'markets have also advanced during the past month but the rise has been less marked than in the United States, and the difference between domestic and foreign prices has increased. See figure 1 at end of report. United States wool consumption and machinery activity was abnormally low in March due to the unsettled financial and industrial conditions of that month. Increased buying of Wool in the Boston market, increased purchases of woolen textiles, and reports of greater activity in textile manufacturing centers make it seem.probab1e that consumption during April and early May did not follow the usual trend for that period which under normal conditions is down Ward. 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.