Excerpt from The Wool Department of the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc Indiana farmers started marketing wool cooperatively in 1885 when they organized the Putnam County Wool Pool at Greencastle. Changes over the years have led to the present-day operations of the W001 Department. Ipeca is a financially strong, multi purpose farmer cooperative. Its total volume of business exceeded $150 million in 1961. Its wool department has handled and sold over 50 percent of Indiana shorn wool each year since 1952, except in 1953 and 1956. The association is affili ated with the National Wool Marketing Corporation, a federated sales and service cooperative owned and controlled by State and regional wool cooperatives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.