An economic analysis of wool warehouses in relation to wool marketing in the United States

Abstract

This dissertation is based upon a study relating to wool warehouses throughout the wool producing areas of the United States and was conducted under cooperative agreements between the Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and the State Agricultural Experiment Stations of New Mexico and Texas. The writer is grateful for the assistance of K. Milton Heins, manager of the Cal-Wool Marketing Association, Stockton, California, end formerly with the Agricultural Marketing Service; L. P. Gabbard and R. L. Holland, formerly cooperative agents of the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; and H. R. Stucky of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. He also wishes to express his appreciation to Professor R. L. Hunt of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology for contributions to the preparation of this study. Special gratitude is due the operators of the wool warehouses for their cooperation in leaking information available for this study and to L. D. Howell of the Agricultural Marketing Service for his supervision of the study.