Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-06 | Page 4 | Utah Fifth in Will Produced

UTAH fiFTH IN WOOL OOL PRODUCED Decrease in Ten- Ten Year Period Had the tho wool produced in Utah in 1919 been apportioned equally among among- the people of ot tho the state e cl every individual individual indi indi- vidual would have ha be been n given gl twentysix twenty twenty- six pounds for tor the production that year rear aggregated according to figures I presented in a bulletin of or the census bureau pounds This is almost half halt a lL million pounds less than tho the production in 1909 when it was pounds Utah ranks tift fifty in 1919 in tho the number of ot pounds otWool of ot wool produced Wyoming being first with pounds Sheep In the state on January 1 1920 numbered more than on the same same- date In 1910 when the number was Texas was tho the greatest sheep producing state in 1920 when the tho number counted was California was second with l and Idaho third w with th 2 Utah ranked ninth in the number of sheep in 1920 I Mohair produced in Utah in 1919 was pounds compared with in 1909 Boats in Utah kept for Cor fleeces on January 1 I 1920 numbered numbered num num- Utah is 18 tho the seventh state in tn rank In the number of ot goats Texas has the tho largest number with New ew Mexico second with New Jersey has tho the smallest number of goats oats anI only twenty seven with Rhode Island A close second with twenty The total production of ot wool ool and mohair in United States in 1919 compared compared compared com com- pared with 1909 is as ab follows Total production of ur wool including estimates estimates 1919 1319 pounds 1909 pounds decrease pounds per cent of ot decrease do- do I crease 20 9 Num Number er of oC sheep on olt farms Jan farms Jan January uary 1 1920 revised April 15 1910 excluding spring lambs decrease per cent of or decrease 1 Production of mohair mohall as reported reported- 1919 pounds 1909 i pounds bounds increase pounds per pcr cent of at increase I Number of ot goats kept for Cor fleeces I on farms tarm I January 1 I 1920