Merchandise Misbranding Bills. Hearings on H.R. 2855, H.R. 11641, H.R. 13111, H.R. 13136, March 19-31, 1920 (Paperback)

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1920 edition. Estratto: ...clipped and put on the market as new Wyoming wool and not have to come in competition with shoddy and cotton and everything else that can be substituted and put off on the uninformed public, who become the victims of deceiving substitutes? Mr. Hadsell. Yes. Mr. Sims. We cannot change your climate; but to the extent that we can help you I think we ought to help you. Mr. Hadsell. We are doing everything we can to make our business a safe one on the range, that is, to get in hay, to build sheds and build different kinds of bed grounds. You gentlemen perhaps do not know what bed grounds are. Take a natural bed ground of sage brush, it probably comes about that high indicating. When it is cold and stormy the sheep go in there and it is probably the best protection we can get; but when the sage brush is filled up with snow the sheep of course can not go in, and we use canvas bed grounds that cost a lot of money, and we have board bed grounds that Wb move from place to place. Mr. Sims. My observation in going through Wyoming on a train is that a man ought to be paid a bounty for living in that land, rather than being discriminated against. Mr. Hadsell. Well, Judge Sims, we love our country. Mr. Sims. Yes, and we ought to love it enough to see that it is not victimized by those who want to practice fraud on other people by selling something for Wyoming wool which is not Wyommg wool in the true sense, that is not virgin or new wool. I think you need every consideration possible. Anybody that lives in that section of the country, which is ill favored by nature, where you have such adverse climate conditions and do not have regular seasons, and where you have storms that few of...