Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Wool Buyers Issue Warning. [ARTICLE]

Wool Buyers Issue Warning.

■» Local wool buyers are wishing that some sort of campaign of education might be instituted among the wool growers of the county against the use of hemp "binder” twine for tying up their bundles of fleece. They say that many farmers lose half the profits of their wool crop annually from their desire to save a few cents in the matter of twine. As a matter of fact, a farmer could tie his fleece in silk cord cheaper than in hemp twine. It is about the most expensive thing that he can use. The hemp fibre gets into the wool and causes unlimited trouble from that time on. It Is next to Impossible ever to get It separated. Many wool growers have come to see the folly of hemp twine, as In past years they have had the price of their product reduced from two to three cents a pound.

Lafayette’s handsome new Masonic Temple, erected at a cost of $25,000, will be formally dedicated Thursday, June Brd.