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Growers who follow practices that improve the quality of wool going to market benefit in more than one way, according to Mayo Berry, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee. They not only get the best price possible for their wool, he pointed out, but by doing this they also in effect increase the incentive payment they receive under the National Wool Act. As the Chairman explains it, the National Wool Act was enacted in 1954 to encourage the domestic production of wool. For this purpose, incentive payments are made to growers, with the rate of the payment based on the percentage necessary to bring the national average market returns received by growers for wool sold during the marketing year up to a previously announced incentive level. The percentage is determined from the national figures, but the same percentage is applied to each grower's net sales proceeds from wool to determine the amount of his payment for the marketing year. Naturally, then, the high er the price the grower receives in the market, the higher his incentive payment will be. The quality of the wool and' its proper preparation for market have an important effect
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