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Show inform members of the work being done on their behalf, and to instill in them an interest that would result in a continuing organization of strength. However, it proved to be a dream until a later date. In 1884 an agreement was made by the officers of the National Wool Growers Association with the Axtell Publishing Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to publish the Wool Growers Quarterly. Unfortunately there are no existing copies, nor are there any records available on the duration of the agree-ment.. 11 Although records are vague it appears that the National Wool Growers Association was connected with either that Wool Growers Quarterly, or a publication called the National Shepherd's Bulletin until the later time in which the association 12 was reorganized in the west Q-901). At that reorganization meeting held in Salt Lake City on January 19th the Shepherd's Bulletin was adopted as the official organ of the association, by the executive committee. The action came in for heated discussion at the following day's convention, and resulted in a puzzling situation. Since no copies, of the Bulletin have been unearthed no real light has been thrown on the situation. A report of the 19Q7 convention indicates that by then a solution had not heen found in publishing ventures to date. It was proposed that the association inaugurate a stock company to publish the magazine devoted to the interests of 130 |