Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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FROM HORSES TO BEES 195 only one ranch or farm in sixty possessing any sheep. ValVerde, with 100,000, is the leading sheep county, whileSan Angelo is the greatest wool market, handling nearlyhalf of the clip. Enormous individual sales to Boston woolmen are made at San Angelo, at Kerrville, and at San An-tonio. But little attention is paid to mutton, for which,however, there is a good demand, emphasis being placedalmost exclusively on wool. In breeding up the rangesheep, rams of the wool-producing breeds have been mostlysought. The Merino is the foundation of the Westerngraded sheep, but Shropshires, Rambouillets, Lincolns, andthe curly fleeced Karakule from Asia, along with manyothers, are being used to grade up. Mr. Alex. Albright ofDundee thinks that his Karalinc, a combination of thetwo last-mentioned breeds, is going to be hardy and produceboth wool and mutton well. The heaviest clip in Texas was over eighteen millionpounds in 1889. The reduction of the tariff on wool causedthe an

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