. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. KARM MANAUKMISNT HKACJTICK OK CHESTEB COUNTY, PA. 21 LIVE STOCK. The dairy cow is by far the most important farm animal in the Chester County area. This is shown very clearly in figure 6 and in ruble V. Figure 6 shows the average number per farm of animals md animal units of each of the various There is an average »f nearly 11 milk cows per farm for the 378 farms operated by their Fig. 6.—Number of animal units per farm ; 378 Chester County (Pa.) owner farms. ^ble V.—Distribution of animals and anima
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. KARM MANAUKMISNT HKACJTICK OK CHESTEB COUNTY, PA. 21 LIVE STOCK. The dairy cow is by far the most important farm animal in the Chester County area. This is shown very clearly in figure 6 and in ruble V. Figure 6 shows the average number per farm of animals md animal units of each of the various There is an average »f nearly 11 milk cows per farm for the 378 farms operated by their Fig. 6.—Number of animal units per farm ; 378 Chester County (Pa.) owner farms. ^ble V.—Distribution of animals and animal units County. on 378 owner farms, Chester Kind of live stock. Average number of animals. Total animal units. Per cent of total animal units. .1 .5 .6 .4 .1 .5 .6 .2 .21 .6 .99 . eef cows .5 ulls 2. G heep ogs oultry • 100. n - The number of young cattle is only about one-fourth that of nature cows. Since in order to keep up both numbers and quality n dairy herds it is necessary to keep about 50 per cent as many oung stock as mature cows, it is clear that Chester County farmers re not raising sufficient young stock to keep up their herds. It will ater be seen that the major portion of the cows are bought. The eason for this is that the production of market milk is the dominant 1An animal unit is a mature horse or cow or as many smaller animals as require the ?ed of a horse or cow, namely, 2 head of young cattle, 5 hogs, 7 sheep, or 100 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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