Show IS SIXTH sax IN SIZE 0 FLOCKS falls from fourth place in rank of wool producers in past ten years idaho Idah 0 and oregon pass queen of the west but little Mont montana montaria aria wyoming 4 new mexico idaho I 1 ab oregon 1 I 9 itah i tah s ani I 1 Call california fornia 1 7 colorado 83 arizona nevada NN washington ashington cs united states ja although the 17 kniber ol 01 wool producing sheep shelp on oil Ne western stern farms and ranges 4 in ili I 1 territory including NIon montana tana wyoming colorado and new mexico and all states west of those hae has increased by 1000 in tho the ten years from front 1900 to 1910 the number in utah decreased by an all almost equal amount in the neep ame period the wool producing sheep in the entire country decreased crea bed slightly at present utah ranges sixth in to the list of wool producing states in the west and for that matter in the entire country it has dropped from fourth place hue bue still producing more than the entire north atlantic division of states which includes new york ant pennsylvania this Is the information to be gathered from a preliminary statement of the thirteen census statistics issued by the census bureau in 1 washington laba monday the rapid development of new territory in the west in the decade is probably accountable for the lucrease li I 1 crease in the industry in this region in utah the restrictions placed on the government ranges by the united states forest service are responsible in a great ine tsure for the decrease the government officials decided that the ranges were overstocked over stocked and took such mea sires they did largely they BAY to prevent the entire destruction of the tile ranges and of the sheep industry many ranges it Is im stated have been rehabilitated slice since the forest regulations went into effect ty borks 4 lit the ile census u shows how some interesting I 1 g facts about the sheep industry for I or example the average size of a flock muck of sheep owned by one it in lit the estern states Is approximately proximately nine hundred in all other parts 0 of the countr it la Is belou thirty sheep to the tile farm farin being twenty one in the north atlantic and twenty liae in the central visions in utah 2419 firms sheel as coni compared pared with eleven years ago according to census despite the decrease in the number of sheep the wool clip this year will be a about b out the same or more than it was in 1900 throughout the country at large the statistics relative to sheer sheep and lambs reported on farms and ranges for the united states by states nd md geographic divisions at the anth decennial census april 15 1910 are contained in an official statement issued by acting director falkner it Is based upon tabular summaries prepared under the direction of dr le grand powers chief statistician tor for agriculture in the bureau of the census tho the figures are and subject to slight revision later when a few other farms chose returns are now incomplete arc are included in the final tables total Is small in summing up the results acting director falkner elates states that for tho the country as a whole there aaa aw as no material change in the sheep industry in the ten years between betti een 1900 and 1310 1910 the tile total number lumber ot of sheep and lambs in tho united unite t states reported for 1910 was nas 61 51 made up of ewes rattis and ethers lambs and 2614 6 sheep and limbs not classified clasa Kled by age or lex tex in the 1910 report reports in 1900 tho total number reported waa as comprising ewes la 15 rama rams and and 16 iamb lambs the public Is cautioned that ow ing to the different dates of enumeration in 1900 1900 and anti 19 1910 10 the fig urea ures for lamba lambs are not comparable I 1 for or the two periods ka e previously shown the number ber reported in 1300 aa as date of june let was 16 while in 1910 the number returned as of april ana aa only this decre iee ie is eald said by the acting arting director to be more apparent app arent thain real it if the tile enumeration 11 1910 had taken place as of june I 1 number lumber of lambs at the two cebus celsus period periods WO would uld probably have the same as proximately been rp shown by the other statistics excluding the lamba lambs tron from C alsid other figures are fairly the era er atlon tion comparable such action would leave a net total of wool brodu producing cang sheep for 1910 ai as compared 1900 with for the 1910 1910 total nill be slightly Blight ly changed in the final reports of 0 the thirteenth census by the tabulation of supplemental schedules for arizona and new now mexico which will ill lid approximately to the number stated hence it la Is seen that there was actually a d crease of only I 1 per lent cent in the net total number of wool producing sheep in 1910 as finally to be compared with the corresponding total for 1900 nut not I 1 ot 01 kits ith 4 mul and the figures in the tile present statement ment do not include the number of wool producing cing sheep reported for cities and towns as distinct from hoso on oil farms and anti ranges given liers lentil ati their total in 1900 waa was bOO while the preliminary minar tabulation now in progress indicates that the total for 1910 was approximate 1 the very nery slight decrease in the total number of wool ool producing sheep was not uniform for all parts of the united states the total number reported tor for the north atlantic division waa was in 1910 as compared with in 1909 1900 distributed throughout ah all the statis in that area the beulh atlantic division reported in 1910 as compared with in 1900 a decrease of about the south central division against in 1900 a decrease of about the north central division div lalon in 1910 as compared with an increase of about and the NN western estern division in 1910 against an in crease of nearly the total change in the south atlantic south central and anti north central divisions therefore was almost negligible eligible and not at all uniform the group of states comprising Ii rylind virginia tennessee kentucky ohio illinois minnesota missouri lis iowa and kansas shows increases s whereas the states north ana south of this central group show decreases in the NN western estern division colorado california and washington ashington IN show slight blight decreases utah a decrease of nearly 1000 and new mexico dexl 0 o a loss 0 of the other states she show material al increases of or I 1 linns potting itt although the nuni br ot of mature sheep decreased very ery slightly during the decade the number of furnn furnis reporting sheep de created from to which Is or 20 per cent the tile decrease in the tile number of farms in lit the north atlantic states was at practically the saria rate us ais the decrease in the number of mature sheep leaving th thi average number of sheep per farm twenty one at both periods in ili the south atlantic div hion tiow cowcer tier there was a decrease deci ease of I 1 rai thirty thousand in the bumler of farms reporting with nith only a L light slight decrease ase in the number lf f cheep in the number of mature sheep farm in tha group of izates was sixteen whery as in 1910 the average number per farm haij had hur lutr eased to twenty in the south central divis loL the number of carmi fell oft off about which Is a much greater relative decrease than that in the number of sheep in 1900 the number of mature sheep per farm was in 1910 it was abut twentynine twenty nine in the north central division both the number ot of farms farras and the number of mature sheep increased lightly slightly the number of sheep per I 1 farm eing about twentynine twenty nine at each census period in the western division the iacre tse la in number of firms corre very closely to the increase in number of 0 t sheep the average number of sheep per farm reported being approximately nine hundred at each of the censuses 1 al I PrIA luction the number of it fleeces of wool and the total weight of the wool clip for 1909 haa has not let et been com tabulated the average weight per fleece for a group of sixteen states alre WY tabulated Is 7 4 pounds in 1900 tho the weight per fleece for these thess etues was 68 6 8 pounds and for tle tte entire united states 6 3 pounds if it the average weight eight for the entire united states for 1909 is 7 4 pounds the aggregate weight of wool shorn in that year including that clipped from the sheep on tarnia farms and in cities at tho the date of enumeration and that shorn from sheep after from that returned by the census of 0 1 1900 or ahem pounds Suin titar lor abst the preliminary comparative summary chos a the following for the debt W 1 I M i f gg 3 tr t a t STATE 0 as a S gr 5 1 ow o w 0 01 montana 1910 2 2691 1900 1 wyoming 1910 1 S 5 1900 1 5 colorado i 1910 1 1 1900 0 1 2044 2 now mexico 1910 1 3 8 6 f 1900 2 04 4 arizona 1910 1 36 asoo utah 1010 alq 1 8 7 1 1000 1 aill 9 HIM czi nevada i 4 1910 36 1 1900 2551 55 idaho 1910 2 1 0 50 34 1900 1 1 U ashington ti t 4 2 1161 1900 2 92 oregon 1910 6 2 1900 6 3 californi i 1910 3 2 2234 1900 3 2563 2 total for division 1910 2 26 6 3 3 G 1 27 1900 25 2 33 united states 1910 oi s 51 1 08 GOO 90 ga 61 varila slaughtered in the spring of 1910 before the date of enumeration will be approximately pounds while it if the average weight tor for the farms of the country Is only seven pounds the weight ot of the farm clip will not greatly differ other utah figures pre are ewes in 1910 in 1900 rams and in 1110 in 1900 lambs born be january let lot and april 15 1910 lambe lambs under one ono year old june 1 1900 |