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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TnbU' showing total number of Sheep, etc. — CONCLUDED. 



Counties. 



: I 



Marquette 



Mason ' 



Mft;osta 



M<'noniinee 



Miilland 



Missaukee 



Monroe 



Montcalm 



.Montmorency 



MusivCgon. . .'. 



Newaygo 



Oakland 



Oceana 



Ogemaw 



Ontonagon 



Osceola 



Oscoda 



Otsego 



Ottawa . 



Presque Isle 



lloscommon 



Saginaw 



St. Clair 



St. Joseph 



Sanilac 



Schoolcraft 



Shiawassee 



Tuscola 



Van Buren 



Washtenaw 



Wavne 



M'exford 



Totals , 1,260,29.5 



8,207,594 



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By studying the above figures it will be seen that the ten counties producing the 

 ^.neatest amount of wool are Washtenaw, Eaton, Jackson, Calhoun, Lenawee, Ingham, 

 Branch, Livingston, Oakland and Hillsdale, in the order named. These ten counties 

 contain nearly one-half the sheep, and produce appro.ximately one-half of the wool 

 urown in Micnigan. All the sheep raisers of Michigan know that the number of sheep 

 in the above counties could be doubled without overstocking the farms of those 

 counties. In other woids, we believe it would be an advantage to the farms and a 

 source of profit to the farmers were the present number of sheep in Michigan all growp 

 in the ten leading sheep counties. We can easily see what a wide field there would be 

 left in other sections of the State, equally adapted to sheep growing, for the develop- 

 ment of the sheep and wool industry. " ^ 



While the number of sheep and the amount of wool produced has suffered a great 

 depression there has been a greater proportional falling ofT in the production of the 

 finer grades of wool. 



We are indebted to Michigan wool buyers for the following data concerning the 

 present character and extent of the Michigan wool product: 



