Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-07-12
NO INCREASE SHOWN
IN SHEEP INDUSTRY
About Same Number of Wool
Producing Animals Shown
by 1910 Census AS Were in
Country 10 Years Ago.

.
uu,. 20 sheep ana mmbs reported ou
/ farms and ranges tor the United
states. pN states aud geographic div-
siuns. al tho thirteenth d,rcunial Dcu-
-us April 30. 1910. are contained In
an official statement issued today uy
! Acting Director FHlku,t % is based
on tibu,ar Summaries prepared uud,f
| an, direction OF Dr De Grand Powers.
! chief sttustician for agriculture u th,
! bureau ct the census IN, ngur,s are
! preliminary and subject tu slight zee
vision lJjcI when a few othor farms,
! whose returns are now incomplete.
Fare included iu the final tables.
ln summing up the results Acting
Dtortor Falkucr states that. for the
country us q Nhulo. there was no ma
tyrIrl change tu h, sheep Industry u
the tom years between 1900 and 1910.
Th, total number cot sheep and
lambs in the United states reported
! fur 1870 was al.63N.a9o. made up uf
.9..p,.uuU ewes. ,llN.8G6 rams aud
Nothcrs. l2,tGS.2tS lambs. ana 2.Gii,-
90 sheep uud lambs mot classified lN
agc CO.. sex ia the 1910 reports lu
1900 th, total aumhcr reported was
81. an1.tl3. comprising 5l,Nr5.6a2
owes. 1.gpa."i5 rams aud Wrthcrs. and
sl.tto.,i6 lambs
The public b. cautioned that. owing
To- tho different dates of enumeration
iu 1900 uud 1910, the figures for
launs ara not ,nntp,rnhIc for the
two periods A. previously shown.
th. uuuh., r,port.d Ina 1900 ag OF
date Jun, T. was 2I.oaO.54G. while IN
1910 tho number returned aa of April
D. was only IGlGN.2ss This decrease
is said %, the acting director a. be-
nor, apparcut than real o. the cnum.
Grafton ian 1910 had taken pIar, ass 81
june the number of lambs 40 tho
t.,u rpuuu. period. would uubably
ha,, boon approNimlt.E OBJ, Same us
.noNu Bod. IN, other statistics
Excluding th, lambs from puusId-
Grafton thr other figures arc iuIrly
r,mpor,hlr. such action would lr,yr
a not total of 2gI.u.sls wool produr-
ms sheen for 1910. as COMPARED With
3p.N5e.9sf for 1900 The 1910 total
will ID, .Iirbtty changed Ina th. final
roports Of tho thirteenth census lbs
mn, t,ht,Isttnn oI .upnl.,n,utnl srhcd.
uI.e for Arznu. ana Nrv Mexico.
which viIl add approxtmatrI, 100.
600 tn tb, number stated. Hence. IL
Il. .,.u chat thor, was nrtunlly % de-
rr,asr OF ouI, nor cent la tho net
total utuibar OF WOO. producing sheen
ia 1910 a. ruau, to h, compared
with tnc rorr,4roudiug total fur 1900
Tho rsur,- m tho present statc-
mont do NOT iueIu,l, IN, number pf
wool rr.duriuu sl..p rcpurtrd for
cities and town. as distinct from thos,
,n fsrms and ranges given herein.
TnrIr total Ina 1900 Was lig.CUo. while
n, pr,lrr.nnn auuytiou nov in
urnrr..s Indicate. that tI, total for
1910 vas approNimat,I, .ss. GOO.
Inrrc.rs and Dccrcasrs u, C.coeraphic
pI,i-ion-.
TIN, ,,r,. .Hsht decrease .u tn, totaI
uupIn.r of wool proau,inp shr,p was
NOT uniform for AN uarts of th. Unit
,d states Th, total number r,port-
ga for a., North Atlanti, division was
I5GGns8 u 1880. AS cnnpar.d with
.a.5825Ta in 1909. "a dcrrcasr of app
urnyluat.ly .nOu. 900 dstributcd
throughout All tb, states ia that nrca
TN, S,uta Atlantic dlyision r.poricd
l.s5e.,i ia 1910. as romr,r,d with
.nGl 1882 iu 1900 decrease of
about lsl. 600: tho south central d.
vision. s.IGs.so.. AGAINST 894N.NtN u
1900 "a decrease of ,bout 1873 00p. th.
North Central division. iO.0G9l5l In
.Ial0. AS cou.parcd With Ioua5.1sI. an
Iurrcas, nf about ~ 600. and the
Western division. 281iG.G3a m 1910.
against 2s.ggNGeu. an mcr,as, OF
nearly 1000 600. m, total change In
tho south Atlantic. south Central and
North Central divisions. therefore. was
almost negligible and not at an uni
form. group OF sintc.. comprising
Maryland. Virginia. Tennessee. Ken
lucky, ohio. Illinois. Minnesota. mVn.
Missouri aud Kansas. shows increases.
whereas the states north ana south
.of this central group show decreases.
Ia th, Western division Colorado.
california and Washington show slight
decreases: uiah. "a decrease of nearly
/ 600. oou. ana Ncw Acxico "a loss of
4o0. 900 Tho other states show ma
tcriul increases.
In the North Atlantic division the
number Of wuol producing sheep re-
ported for Mainc was 1881 ia 1910
and e5ggI1 i'm ipuu. Nov, B.mpghIrp