Show WOOL FACTS GIVE UTAH A HIGH RANK Produces Third 1 1 rt Largest Cro Crop Among Western States Sixty per cent of the total wool a crop of the United States Is produced ed in the eleven cleven western States and andIn andIn F In this group Utah hold third place being ranked out-ranked b by only Wyoming and Montana These facts arc disclosed dis y closed by a special wool report recently recently rec rec- ent submitted by the federal bureau bureau bureau bu bu- reau ot of agricultural economics to Prof Prot William Peterson di director ector of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Agricultural College Extension Service 4 Texas included it in iu the South Central Central Central Cen Cen- group still ranks is its the tho leading wool state of the Union with her I 1926 clip totaling I t pounds but Wyoming th the Western Wester group leader follows a close second with pounds pound to her cred cred- r. r it Montana is third with r pounds and Utah fourth with Then comes Idaho Idah 1 with ic- ic California New Mexico Nevada Colorado Arizona and Washington 1 pounds Ohio is the only state tate outside of Texas and the Western group lead- lead era that may be considered a high producing wool state her 1926 clip t amounting to pounds I Each of the other North Central States produced less than I pounds one of them Nebraska tr a rely i g r o 0 J 0 U.- U. The lowest wool producing state this his year ear was the smallest smallest state I Rhode Island with a total of only h h pounds The highest producing i lilg ing lg suite state st in the North Atlantic group I Ivas was vas New York with Inthe In Inthe Inthe the South Atlantic group the highest high high- highest high I est state was West Vest Virginia with I 2117 poun pounds 3 while while Kentucky I led the So South th Central group with pounds I The total United States clip for 19 1926 G Is given by the federal statis statisticians statisticians statts-I statts as pounds as against pounds for 1 1925 25 a difference of pounds more moro this this' year than last Utah and Idaho among all states ot of the Union tied i for r third place in J Average weight of fleece in 1926 Each average 90 pounds per fleece I against 92 for Oregon and 91 for Washington The average for the tho i eleven western States was ps 81 Sl for I 1926 as against 84 for 1925 The average for the United States Stales wa I 2 in 1926 and 78 in 1925 The South Atlantic States averaged lowest lowest low- low i e est t in 1926 wi with h 51 pounds per par 9 fleece compared with 7 74 4 for the I North orth Atlantic 79 for the North Central and 69 for the South Cen Cen- |