Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-07

pounds of 625-pound fleeces, shrinking 80
per cent to 5,7S1, $50 pounds. worth $685.
475 to the growers, or 81 cents per pound
against GO cents the year before, but
cents better than two years before.
what Nebraska Produced.
Nebraska has $4,000 sheep with heeces
averaging rs pounds each, producing a
total OF 1,s75oOO pounds of raw wool, shrink
ing 81 per cent to 6lS,75O pounds. This was
worth $4O2, 1888, or 6 cents per pound. Iowa's
flock numbers 5OO,OOO having 6.5 pound
fleeces Their clip was 3,25OO 900 pounds with
a shrinkage of 30 per cent, bringing the
secured product down TO 1,625O0O pounds.
This broug ht $4,000 in the market.
Oregon's flock of 100000 produced heeces
averaging heavy. SIS pounds each, or total
OF Is, 100000 pounds. But the shrinl1age was
70 per cent. bringing the secured net down
to 4,59O,0O0 pounds, at 6S cents per pound,
or 312l.2O0, as compared with 50 and 55
cents the two years preceding
California's flock of 10000 averaged rs
pound fleeces with an average of 1S,125.OOO
pounds rough wool, shrinking 81 per cent to
1881, 2JO. This brought 81. 9O1,93S, or g. cents
per pound, to the Golden State In 1905 the
price was 60 cents and the year before s.
cents. Three other states have flocks OF
Michigan. Michigan heads these with 1,5OO,-
900. The clip was 9,45O,OOO of 6.3-pound
leeces, shrinking 30 per cent to ,OOC
pounds. Growers realized $2.sS5,OOO, or o.
cents per pound, against 81 cents the year
before. Texas is a trihe ahead OF Colo
RADIO, with 100000. The clip totalled $780,
900 pounds, or 6.5 f1eeces, shrinking Sc per
cent to 31s2, 400 and worth 81, 1S2,2OS to the
state at g. cents per pound, cents less
than received the year before. Colorado
has l. 600, with fleeces weighing $40 last
year. or a total of s45O,OO0 pounds in the
rough. shrinking 81 per cent to S,11S,50o
pounds This added SOP OPS to the wealth
of the state at 65 cents per pound, a cent
per pound less than in 1905.
Among the curious facts noted from the
tables is that Maine, though having but
100000 sheep, produced 100000 pounds oil
WOOL while West Virginia, with $4,000
clipped 2,s4OOOO pounds Pennsylvania has
$50 900 and the clip was 100000 pounds
virginia managed TO raise 1,75OO00 pounds
with her $4,000 sheep. Rhode Island and
Delaware cannot seem to get their flock
above $500, the same figure as in previous
be able to carry. If the flock of the entire
years
Comparative statistics are hardeto gather
owing to varying conditions. But 1t is In
terestlng to know that If the total wool
clip OF the United States we're loaded into
cars all at one time each car Of average
capacity of 10000 pounds, 1922 cars would
be required. If steel cars Of the 100000
pounds capacity that E. H. Hartman says
will be needed on the roads of the future
were to be used, 2s5 of them would be re-
quired. Even this would be a bigger load
than any engine he could imagine would
United States were to be marshalled in one
long line, allowing each sheep four feet
Of room, they would extend 1884 miles. OF
once around the world and nearly to Sar
Francisco before they stopped. AS TO how
many bales the entire clip could be com
pressed into this is largely matter OF
guesswork as bales vary in size and den
sity from different parts of the country
though they are supposed to have stand
ard of average weight