Show SHEEP S R E E THAN T A N WE FORMERLY RL 19 y T HAD mountain states division produced nearly half of the fleeces reported in 1910 over six hundred thousand farmers have flocks statistics relative to sheep re ported on the fan fari a of continental l united states at the thirteenth decennial census april 15 1910 compared with ith those of the twelfth cen asua sus june 1 1900 and the figures for wool produced in 1909 and 1899 are contained in all official statement issued by director durand 0 of f the bureau ot of the censul depar t meat mont of commerce and labor at washington D C it Is based on tabular summaries prepared by dr john lo 10 grand powers calef statistician for agriculture in the bureau of tho the census thu report of 1909 Is preliminary and subject to such slight changes as may result from further correspondence spon pon dence A small percentage of tle tte tl e schedules were either slightly defect lie or incomplete some reporting wool produced in 1909 but no sheep on hand april 1 I 1910 and some reporting sheep of sharing sh aring a age be on tho the farm but no wool produced in 1909 the report presented Is he hc fever complete and aub su b stant tally ly accurate inasmuch as imperfections ix ot of the enumeration were corrected by correspondence and by the uso use of averages obtained from front the perfect reports I 1 arnic rs lica aking blui t IP there were ere farmers in tho the united states why who were vere leport cd by the enumerator a as keeping sheep la in 1910 they had sheep of shearing u ale on their farms april 15 1310 1910 and in produced 42 fleeces of wool cot weighing elg hing pounds at the excess in number 1 of fleeces shorn during 1909 over or that of sheep on hind hand april 15 1910 is duo due in part to tho the fact that a limited number of sheep in some sonic states are shorn twice thice during he ear near and also in still gi cater measure meagre re to the fact that large numbers of animals Aul mals in all sect sections ioni ire shorn each spring by the farmery farmers before selling them for slaughter thus an enumeration of sheep of shearing age on hand always shows a din allor number than the number of 0 fleeces shorn in the preceding year this difference 1 Is slightly greater f tor r an enumeration on juno 1st than for one on april owing to the larger number of sheep sold after shearing and before enumeration this tact fact Is indicated by a comparison of the data for 1910 and andl 1909 of I 1 leccas the number of fleeces aso Te reported ported for 1909 was or 38 3 8 per cent less than that reported for although the number of sheep of shea shearing age on hand april 15 1910 was only 0 5 per cent less than the number reported ted on june 1 1900 the difference in the rates of decrease Is doubtless a close measure of the number of sheep slaughtered or sold foi fot slaughter under average conditions between april lath and june let and therefore the number of sheep of shearing age ago on farms june 1910 1910 was ag doubtless not far fro L i 3 8 per cent for fo r than that on the corre corr date ten years before luction jn in 1909 comparison with the figures for 1900 shows that although the total numb r of wool bearing sheep decreased 0 5 per cent the farms le ie porting sheep had on the average thirteen morn per tana farm in 1910 thai chaa in 1900 the figures being sixty alve and fifty two respectively this I 1 Is accounted for by the tact fact that there w was ts a decrease of or 20 per cent in the number of farms reporting sheep only 9 6 per cent ot of all farms arms bad sheep in 1900 it Is clear therefore that tie tle industry Is considerably more concentrated than in 1900 notwithstanding ding the decrease Lase of 3 8 per cent in the number of the ini fleeces there vas an indrea increase so in the agre galu weight 0 of all fleeces from pounds in to 1 pounds in a gain of pounds or 4 6 per cent thia this was due to on in in crease of oae oie half pound in the average wel weight ht per fleece from 6 3 pounds in 1899 1900 to 6 8 pounds in 1909 the tho total value of wool of produced increased in ceased from in 1900 to in 1909 a lain of or 43 4 per cent cen As ate already noted there w was some increase in quantity but far jar more important la in determining i this eban change go in values was the increase in ta the value of wool from seventeen ee cent cents per pound in 1900 to twentythree twenty three anete per in 1910 mountain chislon alicato Ali catl although though ti only 2 7 per conti cone ot of the farmers reporting sheep are in the moun mountain tala division they produced nearly halt half or 47 per awit ot of all wool reported for 1909 this la Is la a larger proportion of the me total than they produced in 1899 1900 43 3 per ceni cent of all arr farmers reporting 1 1 ad 2 percent are in the bast north central division but trey vey produce produced only 16 pr cent of all the wool these two to divisions reported nearly wo thirds of the tota tots wol produced and approximately two fifths the farmers reporting the pacific division cornea comes third rela timely 11 8 per erbit 0 th wal A relatively small part 0 all cot 1 produced comes lr fra ho the other divisions new now england rt porting only j 0 8 per cent in comparing cor paring the figures for the several geographic divisions at tho the tuo censuses two very significant movements move moie menta ments are art clearl i defined the west est north central and mountain divisions show in creases in the number r of farms reporting sheep and in the of while mille all other divisions show allow decreases de creasea usually in both of the item shea the number of firms firing reporting sheep increased 4 4 pr p r cent in the west est north central and 19 9 per cent in the mount aln division div islon in con centrist trist the west north central gained 11 7 lr cent in number of wool bearing sheep and the moun tain tats division 8 5 per cent Ile call of these changes the average num nuni ber of she ahe p ot of shearing age in creased from front thirty one to three per farm reporting in the thel niest north central division while the average in fit the mountain ahl slon decreased from front 1421 to 1196 1195 per farm the number of flee leccese shorn and tho the weight and value of cot made large increases in both divisions there was as a I in nu number in her of farms reporting sheep in nil ill selen other divisions accompanied by a decrease in the number of wool bearing sheep in all except the east south central division where an increase 0 1 6 per cent Is 1 ra CO d in the number numb r ot of sheep lar lat decreases decre earea aFes in alabama and mie mis belg wl g more than counterbalanced by increases in kentucky and tennessee decreases in the number of fleece fleeces accompanied tho th decreases in mool cot bearing rheed inight creases in the average vat of fleeces are recorded in all divisions of the united states the south atlantic and east arouth uth central whore decreases of one tenth of a pound per fleece are recorded the highest average weight is 1 found in the mountain division 7 3 pounds per fleece next in order art th east north onil ind L all ahl I 1 lons with 72 7 pounds follo at I 1 ly by the west north central division with ith 9 pound pounds the average weight shades off to G 6 0 pound 4 in tho middle midio io atlantic stutt ind and 6 a 1 in as nt ingland Ing lind and to at minimum 0 of 3 a pounds in the avist south cn cen tr tal it division lalni of there ie Is considerable consider ihle ible arl atlon in tho the average value of wool ool ported by tho the farmers tho the average value per pound for the united slates OB as a whole wits twentythree twenty three cents in 1909 1909 in the new ew england middle atlantic south atlantic and east north motril oi division 4 tho the average value as tuond alny cents JU 10 each division in the east central division it wa twenty soven cents the values in states eat of the mississippi lissis sippi river were considerably bolh lower er tho the average value pot pound tor for the west north central division wa was twenty five cents and for the west south c nl it was awen t ty two cents FP tild mountain division it was twenty cants cents and the pacific division only nineteen cents the aveia avela gt gc thua thus drea decre aa cs more or less gradually as one proceeds towards toes ho he beet es t in seve beveral ral of thol fir far states a minimum of seventeen cents waa was tho the highest atherage per fleece was 2 11 for the east norta north central division with the middle Sl M t lantic alantic a cloae close with an average of 1 93 these high averaged avera gei came a from a high average weight per fleece combined with a high average value per pound next in order are the new england division with au average of and the west best north central with 1 71 these four divisions formerly included in the north atlantic and a nd north central divisions form a continuous group the lowest averages were in the east south central 1 06 and the est south central 1 07 due chiefly to the low average weight per fleece |