. Yearbook of agriculture . 1 ? 1 1 1 ONE HORSE EQUALS 1 MULE 7 SHEEP 1 COW OR STEER 7 SOATS 5 SWINE 2 ASSES 100 POULTRY Fig. 72.—Cattle in 1920 constituted the leading class of live stock in the United Stateson the basis of value. This value was almost equally divided bitween the dairy andbeef t>-pes. Between 1910 and 1920 the total value of cattle in the United States in-creased 143 per cent, due mostly to aji increase in value per head of 125 per cent;whereas the value of all horses decreased 14 per cent, due to exactly the same decreasein value per head. Cattle constituted 46 p<^r ce
. Yearbook of agriculture . 1 ? 1 1 1 ONE HORSE EQUALS 1 MULE 7 SHEEP 1 COW OR STEER 7 SOATS 5 SWINE 2 ASSES 100 POULTRY Fig. 72.—Cattle in 1920 constituted the leading class of live stock in the United Stateson the basis of value. This value was almost equally divided bitween the dairy andbeef t>-pes. Between 1910 and 1920 the total value of cattle in the United States in-creased 143 per cent, due mostly to aji increase in value per head of 125 per cent;whereas the value of all horses decreased 14 per cent, due to exactly the same decreasein value per head. Cattle constituted 46 p<^r cent of the ^alue of all farm animals,horses and muies 32 per cent, swine 12 per cent, sheep and goats 5 per cent, and poultrynearly Z< per cent. Th(» swine, however, pi-odiiee manually pork and lard having a valuegreater than that of the beef and veal from the cattla CATTLE. LIVE STOCK ON FARMS NUMBER AND VALUETWENTY LEADING STATES. ,1920 SHEEP a GOATS VN//JJ/A SWINE C D POULTRY STATE VALUE. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS200 400 600
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