Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-05-17


if placed in a single line would
extend 20, 375 miles, or once around
the world, and back again from
New York to San Francisco.
According to the advance sheets
of the annual census of sheep and
the wool business of the United
States, just issued by the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers
and considered the authority on the
subject by everyone in the business, |
there are 1921, 467 sheep fit for
shearing in the United States, as
compared with SO, 342,O the pre-
ceeding year. The slight excess
over the figures for 1904, the fore
going figures being for the fixed
date of April 1, 1905, when the CEN
sus was made, does not necessarily
mean that the number of sheep in
the country has actually decreased,
as some additions were made to
the flocks in Wyoming and some
changes in the totals were made
between the census date and the
final making up of the tables at the
end of the year. However, that
there has been an increase there is
no question, and this not taking
stock of the lambs, which, if they
could be counted, would make
much larger total than 38, 900, 900.
The spring lambing was fully up
II the average, and the associations
correspondence points to an in
creased number of sheep for the
present seasons clip.
In all sections of the country,
with the exception of Wyoming,
heavier flecces were indicated,
wing to changes and improvements
in the breeds. The total increase
in the weight is six-hundredths of
pound per fleece. The total guam
tity of wool produced, on the basis
before mentioned, 3S, 621, 467 sheep,
not Including pulled wool, is 253,
488, 438 pounds, as against 249, 1888,
032 pounds the previous year. Its
equivalent in secured wool is 81, -
967, 121 pounds. The amount of
pulled wool did not vary particularly
from the year before, $4,000, 900
pounds. The shrinkage was % per
cent, per cent less than the year
before, making the pulled wool yield
equal %, 500, 900 pounds clean wool.
The total production of wool for the
entire country, therefore, was 295, :
488, 438 pounds, or 1876, 527, 121
pounds of secured wool, or 2, sol, ga
pounds more than tine year before.
The average weight of fleece for
the entire country was $50 pounds,
against $50 pounds in 1904 and
Gas pounds in 1908. The average
shrinkage was 61. 3 per cent, COM
pared with Clio per cent in 1904
and CO.'S per cent in 1908. Last
years. valuation of the clip increas-
cd 23.8 per cent over the year be-
fore, while the average value per
pound of fleece and pulled wool in
creased 20. 9 and 22.o per cent, re-
spectively.
The value of the clip in dollars
increased from $64, o48, $50 in 1904
to $50, AIS, 5l4 in 1905. Montana
has the largest number of sheep of
any state in the Union, 5000, 900,
which produced last year 81, 700,
600 pounds of wool, washed and
unwashed. This shrunk to Ia
818, 600 pounds when secured, or 90
per cent, and the valuation was SO,
844, 420. The average weight of q
Montana fleece was 7.25 pounds,
and the average price per pound
was 90 cents, against SIS cents the
previous year. Wyoming is mex
in line, with 4, 500, 900 sheep, pro.
ducing last year $1,000, 900 pound:
of raw wool shrinking 68 per cen
to 10, $50, 900 pounds of the secured
product, worth 81, 056, 900. Fleece'
averaged seven pounds each, anC
the shrinkage 68 per cent.
New Mexico is the third state il
size of flock, with 3,100, 900, pro
ducing II. 1850, 900 pounds of washe,
and unwashed wool, shrinking 81
per cent to $3.50, 900 pounds o
;oured wool, and worth 50, 433, coo
or an average of 65 cents per pound
as compared with so cents in 1904
Fleeces weighed S. pounds, an,
the shrinkage was 90 per cent.
Fourth on the list is Idaho, witt
1880, 1000 sheep. Idaho's raw<pro
duction was 10, 100, 900 in l9DN
shrinking 90 per cent to 5,474, OoC
pounds, secured, worth So, III, O6Q
Fleeces averaged pounds each. ara
the average pound price was 90
cents, IA cents more than the year
before