No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



65 



Live Stock. 



Age In Tears. 



Calves, 



Steers 



Steers 



Steers 



Bulls 



Heifers 



Cows kept for milk 



Cows and heifers not kept for milk, 



Colts, 



Horses 



Horses, 



Mule colts 



Mules, 



Mules, 



Asses and burros, 



Lambs, 



Sheep, (ewes), — 



Sheep (rams and wethers), 



Swine 



Goats 



Chickens 



Turkeys 



Geese 



Ducks 



Bees (swarms) 



Increase, 



Under 1. 



1 and under 2, 



2 and under 3, 



3 and over, .. 

 1 and over, . . . 



1 and under 2, 



2 and over, . . . 

 2 and over, . . . 

 Under 1, 



1 and under 2, 



2 and over, . . . 



Under 1, 



land under 2, 

 2 and over, . . . 



All ages, 



Under 1 



1 and over, . . . 

 1 and over, ... 



All ages 



All ages 



$421 



217 



321 



130 



690, 



673, 



4,718 



224, 



142 



292, 



5,ffiS, 



9, 



36 



499, 



2 



258 



769 



190 



1,107 



1 



527 



38 



9 



17 



161 



323 00 

 362 00 

 260 CO 

 656 00 

 060 00 

 869 CO 

 865 00 

 035 00 

 735 00 

 672 00 

 50O 00 

 152 00 

 040 00 

 665 00 

 880 00 

 791 00 

 463 00 

 020 OO 

 981 00 

 ,646 75 

 655 30 

 ,973 64 

 ',117 00 

 ,127 10 

 ,670 00 



$16,768,518 79 



The foregoing statement shows the results possible to be obtained 

 by the encouraging of but a single branch of our agriculture. This 

 can be multiplied, if the same assistance and encouragement is given 

 in the other branches, such as fruit growing, grain raising, vegeta- 

 ble gardening and kindred crops, suited to our latitude and soil. 



EXPENSE OF THE STATE BOARD. 



There should also be an appropriation made to pay the expenses 

 of the annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, the Horti- 

 cultural Society, the Dairy Union, the Live Stock Breeders' Associa- 

 tion, and the Poultry Association. Twenty-five hundred dollars per 

 year, would pay the expenses of the meetings of all of these organi- 

 zations ,and would relieve the individual members from being com- 

 pelled to contribute, of their private funds, for this purpose. The 

 work of these societies is of public importance, and the State can 

 well afford to aid them in their efforts to develop the branch of agri- 

 culture which each represents. Twenty-five hundred dollars per 

 year would meet this expense. Our sister State, New York ,gave in 

 1902, for these purposes, as follows: 



5—6—1902 



