AMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY
At the lieginning of 1914 the number of sheep in the I’nied States as n whole had increased to 38.3ti1.000. and at the beginning of 1925 to 39.134.000. Of the total nt the beginning of 1924 21,0.).:.000. or 57 per cent., were in the eleven States of the Pacific Slope. The price the sheepmen of the Pacific Slope States received for their 1924 wool clips averaged about 40 cents a pound. This has meant a total return approximating 37.550.000 dollars on the 144,700,001 b. produced in' the eleven States of the Pacific Slope last year. American wool manufacturers will long continue to be dependent upon New Zealand and Australia for the superior fine wools for which those countries arc justly famous, but, owing to the importation of Antipodean prize sheep during recent years, the American woolgrowers are aiming to produce fine wools themselves, but the climatic conditions will ever materially militate against the Lnited States approaching the high-class quality of Australasian wools.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19325, 2 June 1925, Page 8
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165AMERICAN SHEEP INDUSTRY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19325, 2 June 1925, Page 8
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