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AvEii.\.GE Production of "Wool per Shekp, in each of the States. — I have noticed recently, in 

 several periodicals, an article taken from the census of 1850, giving the number of sheep and the 

 amount of wool in each of the States and Territories in the Union. From those data I have added 

 another column, giving the average weight of fleece in each of the States and Territories. If you 

 will have the goodness to add still aqpther column, giving, so far as you can conveniently, the 

 medium price at which wool has been sold the present season in the several States, putting down 

 Vermont at 37|^ cents, and let the whole appear in your valuable paper, the Farmer, you will doubt- 

 less Bubserye the wool-growing interest^ and very much oblige a constant reader. Daniel Good 

 YEAR. — Hinesburgk, VL 



States atid Territories, iVb. of SJieep, 



Maine 451,,'57T 



New Hampshire, 384,756 



Vermont, 919,992 



Massachusetts, 188,651 



Rhode Island, '!4,296 



Connecticut, 174,181 



New York, 3,45.3,241 



New Jersey, 160,438 



Pennsylvania, 1,822,357 



Delaware, 27,503 



Maryland, 177,902 



District of Columbia, 150 



Virginia, 1,310,004 



North Carolina, 595,249 



South Carolina, 285,.551 



Georgia, 500,4-35 



FJorida 2;3,31l 



Alabama, 371,880 



Mississippi, 304,929 



Louisiana, 110,.333 



-Texas, 99,098 



Arkansas, 91,256 



Tennessee, 811,591 



Kentucky, 1,102,121 



Ohio, 3,942,929 



Michigan, 746,435 



Indiana, 1,122,493 



lUinois, 894,043 



Missouri 756,309 



Iowa, 149,960 



Wisconsin, 124,892 



California, 17,574 



Minnesota, 80 



Oregon, 15,.382 



Utah, 3,262 



New Mexico, 377,271 



21,020,482 52,518,146 2 lbs. 7 oz., nearly. 



We are sorry not to be able to comply with our correspondent's wish. It would be a 

 somewhat difficult task to get the average price of wool in each of the States correctly, 

 though could it be obtained it would, in conjunction with the column added in the 

 above table, be exceedingly interesting. We presume Mr. Goodyear feels proud of his 

 State, and wishes to contrast it with its sisters, for it appears at the head of the heap — 

 yielding 3 lbs. 11^ oz. of wool to each sheep. Small as this weight appears, it is the 

 hiirhest averaare in the United States. The District of Columbia comes in second — 

 averaging 3 lbs. 8 oz. There are but 150 sheep, however, and those probably in the 

 possession of a few amateurs. Massachusetts is third — averaging 3 lbs. and 1 oz. ; and 

 Maine next — 3 lbs. 0^ oz. Thus it appears that there are but three States in the Union 

 that reach an average of three pounds of wool per sheep. Iowa, Ohio, Maryland, Michi- 

 gan, Utah, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York, range in the 

 order named from 2 lbs. 8 oz. to 2 lbs. 14;^ oz. Arkansas, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Dela- 

 ware, Missouri, Virginia, Indiana, New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, range from 

 2 lbs. to 2 lbs. Y|- oz. Florida, Minnesota, Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina. 



Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, range from 1 lb. to 1 lb. 15 oz, 



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