80 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 19^1. 



Fig. 93.^0ver half of the goats in the United States are in Texas — nearly all on the 

 Edwards Plateau. Cattle, sheep, and goats (see Figs. 81 and 92) are grazed on the 

 same land in this district, the cattle pasturing on the grass, the goats browsing the 

 oak scrub and other brush, retarding its advance upon the grass land, while the sheep 

 eat the weeds as well as the grass and brush. In the South and in western Oregon the 

 goats are used in large numbers in clearing up cut-over land. In Texas and Oregon the 

 goats are mostly Angoras, in Arizona and New Mexico Angoras predominate, but other 

 brei'ds are common, while in the South practically none of the goats are raised for 

 their fleece. 



Fig. 94. — The farm value of the wool produced in the United States in 1919 was about 

 120 million dollars, and of the mohaii- about three and a half million. Texas led the 

 States in value of wool and mohair produced, but as the value of the mohair amounted 

 to $2,673,275, the value of the wool produced in Texas was less than in Montana, Ohio, 

 Wyoming, Idaho, or Oregon. Thp average value of the wool produced in 1919 per mature 

 sheep January 1, 1920, was $6.43 in Ohio, $6.50 in Montana, $5.53 in Oregon, and 

 about $4 in Texas ; while the value of mohair in Texas per mature goat raised for the. 

 fleece was $2.40. The price of wool in 1919 was about three times the pre-war price. 



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