. Agriculture outlook ... Agriculture. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK. LIVE STOCK OF THE LNITED STATES. INTRODUCTION. The contents of this bulletin relate principally to estimates of the supply of live stock of specified classes on farms in the United States on January 1, 1914, the average farm price per head, and the esti- mated total value of each class. These estimates are based upon reports and estimates from 22 special field agents, 47 State statistical agents, 1,S67 county correspondents, 15,542 township correspond- ents, and 1,782 special live stock correspondents. The results of these estmia
. Agriculture outlook ... Agriculture. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK. LIVE STOCK OF THE LNITED STATES. INTRODUCTION. The contents of this bulletin relate principally to estimates of the supply of live stock of specified classes on farms in the United States on January 1, 1914, the average farm price per head, and the esti- mated total value of each class. These estimates are based upon reports and estimates from 22 special field agents, 47 State statistical agents, 1,S67 county correspondents, 15,542 township correspond- ents, and 1,782 special live stock correspondents. The results of these estmiates have in every case been compared with the estunates by this bureau for the past three years, with the census of 1910, and with the totals shov/n by the records of tax assessors in the various States so far as ihoj are available for the past three years. Wliile the totals and averages set forth herein are purely estimates, it is believed that they are as nearh^ accurate as it is possible to make them without an actual enumeration, such as was made by the Bureau of the Census in 1910. The statistics of farm animals and animal products are admittedly most unsatisfactory. A mass of statistics are available as to receipts and shipments of live stock at some of tho great central markets of the West and Middle West, as to the number of animals exported and imported, and as to the average weights prices quoted at central markets; but aside from the census no accuj'ate statistics as to the number, sex, age, weight, annual increase or decrease, or cost of production, are available from year to year in the United States. Accurate statistics do not exist for the present year as to the number of local slaughtering houses in the United States, the number of meat animals slaughtered therem, cost of slaughtering, or tho quantity of meat and by-products pro- NoTE.—The next regular report of tlie Bureau of Statistics (Agricultural Fore- casts) will relate to corn, Avheat, oats, and ba
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