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In Miles City, on April 20, 1884, the Eastern Montana Stockgrowers Association met to discuss such issues as the overstocking of the range, Texas fever, and how to put a stop to the “rustling” of livestock on the open range. Granville Stuart in his book Forty Years on the Frontier claims that 429 stockmen were present, although this is most ...
Montana: The Magazine of Western History (formerly The Montana Magazine of History) is a quarterly journal published by the Montana Historical Society. It publishes articles about the history of Montana as well as the western United States and Canada. The magazine also publishes book and movie reviews. It is heavily illustrated with historic ...
The Miss Wool of America Pageant was a showcase of wool-related merchandise. It was an annual event organized by the National Wool Growers Association (U.S.), American Sheep Producers Council, and the Wool Bureau, Inc. at San Angelo, Texas, from 1952 to 1972. Originally a Texas-only event (the Miss Wool of Texas Pageant), it attracted wider ...
Wool classing. Throwing a freshly shorn fleece onto a wool table for skirting and classing. Wool classing is the production of uniform, predictable, low-risk lines of wool, carried out by examining the characteristics of the wool in its raw state [1] and classing (grading) it accordingly. Wool classing is done by a wool classer.
A stockgrowers association was an organization of cowmen in the Old West of the United States who attempted to restrict entry onto the range by controlling access to limited water supplies. [1] Some of these organizations still exist, although their functions have changed. Examples include the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association, the Western South ...
Scouring is a preparatory treatment of certain textile materials. Scouring removes soluble and insoluble impurities found in textiles as natural, added and adventitious impurities: for example, oils, waxes, fats, vegetable matter, as well as dirt. Removing these contaminants through scouring prepares the textiles for subsequent processes such ...
The International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) is the international body representing the interests of the world's wool -textile trade and industry. Its members include wool growers, traders, primary processors, spinners, weavers, garment makers and retailers of wool and allied fibres, as well as organizations related to wool products. [1] [2]
Website. montanan .umt .edu. The Montanan is the University of Montana 's (UM) alumni magazine with a circulation of over 113,000 - making it the largest circulating magazine from Montana, United States. [1] It is one of eleven publications of the University of Montana's University Relations published in its current state since 1983 though ...