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Show WOOL FACTS GIVE UTAH HIGH RANK Sixty per cent of the totalwool crop of the United States is produced in the eleven western states, and in this group Utah holds third place, being out-ranked by only Wyoming and Montana. These facts are disclosed by a special wool report recently submitted sub-mitted by the federal bureau of agricultural agri-cultural economics to Prof. William Peterson, director of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural College Extension Service. Serv-ice. Texas, included in the South Central Cen-tral group, still ranks as the leading wool state of the Union, with her 1926 clip totaling 25,804,000 pounds, but Wyoming, the Western group leader, follows a close second with 24,132,000 pounds to her credit. Montana is third, with 23,100,000 pounds, and Utah fourth with 20,-322,000. 20,-322,000. Then -comes Idaho, with 19,440,000; Oregon, 18,400,000; California, 18,189,000; New Mexico, 12,325,000; Nevada, 8,853,000; Colorado, Col-orado, 7,950,000; Arizona, 7,006,-000; 7,006,-000; and Washington, 4,714,000 pounds. Ohio is the only state outside of Texas and the Western group leaders that may be considered a high producing pro-ducing wool state, her 1926 clip amounting am-ounting to 16,044,000 pounds. Each of the other North Central States produced less than 8,000,000 pounds, one of them, Nebraska, barely exceeding ex-ceeding 1,500,000 pounds. The lowest wool producing state this year was the smallest state, Rhode Island, with a total of only 6,000 oounds. The highest producing produc-ing state in the North Atlantic group was New York, with 3,S18,000. In the South Atlantic group, the highest state was West Virginia, with 2,117,-000 2,117,-000 pounds; while Kentucky led the South Central group with 3,177,000 pounds. The total United States clip for 1926 is given by the federal statisticians statistic-ians as 269,054 pounds as against 253,907,000 pounds for 1925, a difference dif-ference of 15,147,000 pounds more this year than last. Utah and Idaho, among all states of the Union, tied for third place in average weight of fleece in 1926. Each average 9.0 pounds per fleece, against 9.2 for Oregon and 9.1 for Washington. The average for the eleven western States was 8.1 for 1926 as against 8.4 for 1925. The average for the United States was 7.79 in 1926 and 7.8 in 1925. The South Atlantic States averaged lowest low-est in 1926, with 5-1 pounds per fleece, compared with 7.4 for the North Atlantic, 7.9 for the North Central, and 6.9 for the South Central. |