EXHIBIT H AVERAGE PRICE RECEIVED IN THE OPEN MARKET BY GROWERS AND INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR SHORN WOOL SEASON AVERAGE PRICE RECEIVED IN THE FREE MARKET1 INCENTIVE PRICE 1Season average prices for 1952-1954 includes an allowance for unredeemed loan wool. Under the National Wool Act, woolgrowers are receiving approximately 15 percent more income from their wool including the incentive payments than they received under the previous price-support loan programs. (Exhibit H.) 70 percent of specific duties EXHIBIT I Number of stock sheep in the United States; domestic production, imports, and consumption of wool; wool prices and payments under the National Wool Act of 1954; and 70 percent of duties collected on wool and wool manufactures 58 553 4 31.5 28.2 1 Converted to domestic greasy shorn equivalent on basis of 1 pound pulled wool equal 2 Apparel wool converted to domestic greasy shorn equivalent on basis scoured yield 3 Shorn wool, percent of net proceeds received by each producer, unshorn lambs, cents 4 Marketing year beginning Apr. 1, 1955; calendar year prior to 1955. For JanuaryMarch 1955 period 70 percent of specific duty collections totaled $8,000,000. $ Estimated. • Preliminary. Prepared by Livestock and Dairy Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, Jan. 16, 1958. EXHIBIT J Number of goats clipped; production and consumption of mohair, and farm price of mohair in the United States Estimated on basis of loan rate of $0.20 per pound for adult and $0.30 per pound for kid mohair in Texas, with adult mohair comprising 87 percent of total. 6 No support programs. 'Beginning July 1953, reported consumption included alpaca, common goat hair, etc.; therefore, beginning with 1953, domestic mohair is derived from reported stocks, production, imports, and exports. 8 Preliminary. Prepared by Livestock and Dairy Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, Jan. 16, 1958. EXHIBIT M Estimated mill consumption of wool, cotton, rayon, acetate, other manmade fibers and silk, United States, 1938 to date 1 Mill consumption, scoured basis, as reported by the Bureau of the Census. Grease wool basis derived by applying an assumed yield of 44 percent to the reported scoured wool consumption. Mill consumption as reported by the Bureau of the Census. For American cotton tare as reported by the crop reporting board was deducted. 4 Domestic shipments plus imports for consumption as published in Textile Organon. Imports for consumption as reported by the Bureau of the Census. Source: Compiled from Wool Statistics and Related Data, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service. Prepared by Livestock and Dairy Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, January 16, 1958. |