CHAPTER XVI 

 WOOL PRODUCTION 



The production of wool is so intimately connected with 

 the raising of mutton that in practically no case has it 

 proved practicable to raise sheep for either mutton or 

 wool exclusively. According to the report of the Tariff 

 Board for the year 1910, the average receipts for each sheep 

 in the United States west of the Missouri River were 

 $2.44. Of this amount, $1.05 was derived from wool 

 and $1.39 from other sources ; thus for all the sheep west 

 of the Missouri River, which includes approximately 70 

 per cent of the sheep in the United States, the income 

 from wool amounts to 43 per cent of the total gross in- 

 come. This proportion varies considerably when different 

 flocks are compared. It perhaps varies somewhat with 

 the different states of the West, but in no case do the 

 receipts from wool exceed the receipts from other sources. 

 In the states east of the Missouri River the proportion of 

 the income derived from wool is somewhat less, but at 

 the same time it is a large and important item. 



The wool industry of the United States is on the whole 

 one of very great importance. This country produces 

 about 325 million pounds of wool, which is worth to the 

 farmers something over 60 million dollars. This enormous 

 amount of wool, however, does not meet the demands of 

 the American people. While the United States produces 



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