Our country and its resources; . CHURNING BUTTER IN A CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY—INSERT SHOWS AMODERN MILK-MAID product! £ 4,900,000 shorl tons of cane. The Hawaiian cane is ex-tremely rich, requiring bul a singleshort ton of cane to produce 250pounds of sugar, an average yield of10,86] pounds of sugar per acre ofcane LIVE STOCK Horses and Mules Increase in numbers of horses and mules on United Stales farms has fully kept pace with the increase in population. The census of 1870 showed 7,145,370 horses and 1,125,-. 12 (il K COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES U5 mules in the United States, Theestimated Dumber
Our country and its resources; . CHURNING BUTTER IN A CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY—INSERT SHOWS AMODERN MILK-MAID product! £ 4,900,000 shorl tons of cane. The Hawaiian cane is ex-tremely rich, requiring bul a singleshort ton of cane to produce 250pounds of sugar, an average yield of10,86] pounds of sugar per acre ofcane LIVE STOCK Horses and Mules Increase in numbers of horses and mules on United Stales farms has fully kept pace with the increase in population. The census of 1870 showed 7,145,370 horses and 1,125,-. 12 (il K COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES U5 mules in the United States, Theestimated Dumber for L916, based onthe best available statistics, is 21,-166,000 horses and 4,565,000 average value of a farm horsein 1870 was $ To-day it is$ The average price of a For instance, the average price per head for horses in the Chicago HorseMarket in 1914 was $208 for adrafter, $483 for a carriage team.$169 for drivers. $160 for general horses. sls4 for saddle horses, andso on. These figures represent a con- KAKM PRODUCT CARRIED AS FREIGHT IX THE UNITED STATES. 1912-1914 Year ending .June 30 Product 1912 1913 1914 Animal mat ter: Short tons14,147,000 Short tons15,042,000 Short tons14,811,000 Packing-house products 2, 2,360,000 2,407,0001,121,000 (H) 2, 1,081,000 Other packing-house products 2, Total packing-house products 5,845,000 5,873,000 Poultrv (including game and flshi Wool 768,000 407,000 3,807,000 398,000 4,286,000 915,
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