Editing Mills County, Texas (section)

==== Statistics ====
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|+2017 Agricultural Value<ref>{{Cite web |date=Spring 2018 |title=Mills County Agriculture |url=https://mills.agrilife.org/newsletters/mills-county-agriculture/ |access-date=December 5, 2022}}</ref>
!Commodity
!2017 Estimated Dollars
|-
|Beef
|19,187,200
|-
|Milk
|6,000,000
|-
|Sheep
|5,859,600
|-
|Hay
|5,000,000
|-
|Hunting
|4,925,000
|-
|Goats
|2,874,000
|}
Records show that the county has featured a large population of sheep and goats.<ref name=":18" /> Sheep reached a peak of 133,737 head in 1940, and goats reached a peak of 118,009 in 1964. Cattle fluctuated from a low of 16,279 head in 1940 to a high of 48,901 in 1978.<ref name=":18" /> Total animal units in the county was 41,745 in 1935 before reaching a peak of 69,429 AU in 1969.<ref name=":18" />  The 2012 [[Census of agriculture|agricultural census]] reported 34,294 sheep, 23,325 goats, and 32,663 head of cattle, with 42,568 AU.<ref name=":18" /> Average ranch size was 109 hectares in 1935 before reaching a peak size of 256 hectares in 1969.<ref name=":18" /> The 2012 agricultural census reported a decrease to an average size of 219 hectares.<ref name=":18" />

By 1890, there were 680 farms and ranches in the county, consisting of 142,299 acres, with 25,000 head of cattle and 23,000 sheep.<ref name=":7" />

By 1930, the county produced 32,000 acres of cotton, 21,300 head of cattle, 68,000 goats (many raised for mohair), 78,000 sheep, and 67,000 chickens.<ref name=":7" />

In 1979, Mills County ranked among the top ten Texas counties in the mohair industry: eighth in number of Angora goats (38,000 head) and seventh in pounds of mohair produced (386,000 pounds).<ref name=":34" /> Total county income in 1979 from both mohair and wool reached more than $65.9 million.<ref name=":34">{{Cite web |last=Bridges |first=G. Frank |date=1980-07-10 |title=The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1980 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1651859/m1/8/zoom/ |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref>