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While Walter Pfluger was director of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association in 1949, he was instrumental in the passage of The National Wool Act. This gave price supports to American wool producers as incentive to keep producing, though their product was more expensive to produce than imported wools. Pfluger pushed for the act and then stood firm when mohair, a specialty fiber produced from Angora goats, was about to be written out of the act. In the end, mohair was included in the act.