. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig 94—The farm value of the wool produced in the United States in 1919 -was about120 million dolars, and of the mohair about three and a half million. Texas led theStates in value of wool and mohair produced, but as the value of the mohair amountedto $ 275, the value of the wool produced in Texas was less than in Montana, Ohio,Wvoming Idaho, or Oregon. The average value of the wool produced rn 1919 per maturesheep Januarv 1, 1920, was $ in Ohio, $6,50 in Montana. $ in Oregon, andabout $4 in Texas; while the value of mohair in Texas per mature goat rais
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig 94—The farm value of the wool produced in the United States in 1919 -was about120 million dolars, and of the mohair about three and a half million. Texas led theStates in value of wool and mohair produced, but as the value of the mohair amountedto $ 275, the value of the wool produced in Texas was less than in Montana, Ohio,Wvoming Idaho, or Oregon. The average value of the wool produced rn 1919 per maturesheep Januarv 1, 1920, was $ in Ohio, $6,50 in Montana. $ in Oregon, andabout $4 in Texas; while the value of mohair in Texas per mature goat raised for thefleece was $ The price of wool in 1919 was about three times the pre-war price. A CrrapMc Siunnmary of Americcm Agricultwre, 487. Fig. 95.—Half of the poultry in the United States are in the Com Belt and aroundits margin, where feed is cheap. But the two most notable districts of production arethe counties in southeastern Pennsylvania, near Ihiladelphia, and Sonoma County,Calif., especially the district around Petaluma. Six counties in southeastern Pennsyl-vania had nearly 5 million poultry on January 1. 1920, or 4,000 to the square mile;while in Sonoma County there were over 3 million poultry, with sales of eggs andchickens amounting to over 12 million dollars in 1919. Lros Angeles County, Calif.,bad 1,350,000 poultry. The California cities are supplied largely from these twocounties; but the eastern dties draw their supplies from a much wider territory. 488 Yearhooh of the Department of Agnmltmre^ 1921.
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