Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-20 | Page 12 | Utah Wool Clip below Record

UtAH WOOLGUP BELOW RECORD 16.150,000 Pounds This Year 850,000 Pounds Less Than 1919 i Figures complied by the department j ot agriculture at Washington on wool production show that the clip for 19 20 was 256.307,000 pounds as compared with 2",r,,3a.ono pounds In 1010. Jtah's clip for the current year was shown to be 16.K.0.000 pounds, or 8S0.OO0 pounds less than the 'liP for IH19. Idaho this year produced 2O.7o2.o00 pounds of wool as against 22,145.000 pounds in 1919. Wyoming, the largest wool producej In the country, had a clip this yea) of 2S 422,000 pounds as against 31,-fi8Q,000 31,-fi8Q,000 pounds last year, r The Montana clip for 1 920 was 15.-! 15.-! 800,000 pounds and the clip for 1919 i if ,i 1 7,450,000 pounds. Oregon. Arizona and New Mexico ,urc the only far western states Which (produced OS much or more woed this ear as In the year pi e c. ding. The j Oregon clip for the two years is prhc-t)caii prhc-t)caii the same, 14.040,000 pounas Department pf agriculture- records show that the farm value of wool In 1920 was JuMi about halt of what il IVas in 1919, averaging figures collected collect-ed in all the wool growing stales These figures apply to unwashed wool. The 'farm value in I'tnh averaged 45 cents In 1819 and this year Is stated to average- 35 cents In Idaho the farm value dropped lrom 4S cents In 1919 to 23 cents this year, and In .Montana the elrop v..--. from 67 cents to 25 cents. Ne farm alues on Wyoming wool .are glen In the official table. The average drop was from 52 to 2S cent.-.. : nn