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A study of Rappahannock wool consigned to the 1962 CulpeperRappahatinock= pool reveals some interesting figures.
Wool consigned from 1289 sheep averaged 6.67 pounds per sheep as compared to the average clip in the state (1959 census) of 6.1 pounds.
Our producers pooled 9224 9224 pounds of wool of which 93% was sorted as “clear” wool which brought $58.85 a hundred pounds. Wool sorted as “light burry” netted producers $49.90 per cwt. The average price of “clear” and “light burn,'” was $58.23 net to producers. ASCS records show the price of unsorted non-pooled wool was $52.00.
The 1959 county agricultural census shows a sheep population of 2209 head. If all of these are still around, and assuming they produced the same as the other sheep whose wool was pooled, their own
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