A picture and a Conference.

Thanks to everyone who continues to follow my blog. I don’t always get the time to post as much as I would like to. Today’s blog will include a picture from The Stockman, July 1959. I love when I can add pictures as a picture is worth a thousand words and, in fact, we are getting three pictures in one here. The caption has been included.

I am also including information of the first national lamb and wool conference that was to be held during August of 1960 in Laramie, Wyoming.  In the 1950s lamb and wool prices were down and the industry was being reduced – by the numbers in the business, price for the wool and lamb sold for meat.  This not only affected the sheep raisers but the textile manufacturers, who also attended the conference.

The main aim of the conference was “to improve the economic position of the sheep industry and to enable it to better fulfill its responsibility to the consuming public and to the nation through… examination of problems, … review of new developments, and … stimulation of industry action”. 

Hopefully in future The Stockman information will be forthcoming on the decisions that the two industries agreed upon to improve the economic outlook for both sheep raisers and the textile manufacturers. Nevertheless, I will be pursuing this conference from other sources if The Stockman does not report on it. The magazine had a few more years of publication; however, I have only found two more years. Luckily, this won’t be the only source of information for this conference.

So, stay tuned as further research is needed to report on the happening at this conference!