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Show GROWTH FORESEEN IN GOATINDUSTRY Washington County Will Benefit Ben-efit by Mohair Demand Increase, In-crease, According to Experts The intermountain region, particularly par-ticularly Washington county, will share in the expansion which is in store for the Angora goat industry, according to a forecast by the United Unit-ed States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. The department says that increasing in-creasing demand for mohair has resulted re-sulted in a rapid expansion of the goat industry. The department also believes that as the value of Angora An-gora goats is appreciated there will be considerable further expansion of the industry on range areas supporting sup-porting browse which cannot be used" as satisfactorily or economically by other classes of stock. Southern Utah, principally Wash-(Continued Wash-(Continued on page 2) EXPANSION FORESEEN FOR GOAT INDUSTRY (Continued from page 1) ington county, has produced large quantities of mohair for several years and goat raisers in this section sec-tion have long felt this country was due for brighter days in the industry. A committee of the department de-partment of agric'ture recently made a study of t? goat industry indus-try on a national sg :. They estimated esti-mated that more thai :,000,000 goats are now clipped anney in the six leading mohair proi ting states Texas, Arizona, NeV Mexico, Oregon, Ore-gon, California and -lv.issouri ' as compared with 2,346,000 goats clipped clip-ped in 1920. During the period since 1920", however, the average weight of mohair fleeces has increased in-creased as a result of improved production pro-duction methods, with the result that production of mohair, including includ-ing kid hair, in the six states, is approximately 14,000,000 pounds annually, an-nually, as compared with 8,474,000 pounds in 1920. Although goats are kept in virtually vir-tually all agricultural regions of the country, approximately 90 per cent of the total are in the six states. The department notes that recently the cooperative idea of marketing has been applied to the mohair industry, in-dustry, but feels that, because of the small quantity produced in many of the states, it may be advisable to cooperate with the wool handling units already operating in those states. The specialists of the department who made the survey declare that the pioneer stage of the SaThvT try is passing and that the cre" need is for continued improvem in the quality of goats and flew increased efficiency in produor and marketing methods, and the tablishment of official United S'atS" grades for mohair standards. |