Cooperative Lamb Slaughtering in the Northeast (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cooperative Lamb Slaughtering in the NortheastIn 1980, 15 northeastern States produced and marketed lambs and sheep, 7 percent of the million lambs and 8 percent of the million sheep marketed in the United States. Ohio had the greatest lamb production in the Northeast and provided 40 percent of the region's total. Virginia was second with 22 percent. (see fig. 1 for lamb marketings by State.) The trend in lamb marketings in Northeast has been downward, with an average annual rate of decline of head from 1966 to 1980. Over that period, lamb marketings decreased 51 percent, just slightly less than the decrease of 54 percent for the United States. If the trend continues, the 15-state area will market only lambs in 1985 and be out of the lamb business in 1990.However, the regional trend has moderated since 1975. Many States have reversed the downward trend. Most of the New England States except Maine have been increasing production since 1970. Maine has been doing so since 1976. Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey have been relatively stable since 1970. Ohio and Virginia, the two largest producing States, seem to have stopped their downward trends and are expected to increase produc tion. Kentucky also appears to be at the bottom of its decline. New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia probably have not reached the turning point yet, but they are close. Projections for 1985 and 1990 are shown in table 1 and figure 2.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.