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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



HORSES AND MULES— Continued. 

 Number of horses and mules received at principal live-stock markets, 1900-1917 — Continued. 



CATTLE. 



Cattle: Number and Value on Farms in the United States, 1S67-1918. 



Note. — Figiares in italics are census returns ; figures in roman are estimates of the 

 Department of Agriculture. Estimates of numbers are obtained by applying estimated 

 percentages of increase or decrease to the published numbers of the preceding year, 

 except that a revised base is used for applying percentage estimates whenever new 

 census data are available. It should also be observed that the census of 1910, giving' 

 numbers as of April 15, is not strictly comparable with former censuses, which related 

 to numbers June 1. 



Milch cows . 



Number. 



Price per 



head 

 Jan. 1. 



Farm value 

 Jan. 1. 



Other cattle. 



Number. 



Price per 

 head 

 Jan. 1. 



Farm vnlue 

 Jan. 1. 



1867 



1868 



1869 



1870 



1S70, census, June 1. 



8,349,000 

 8,692,000 

 9,248,000 

 10,096,000 

 8,9S5,S32 



$28.74 

 26.66 

 29.15 

 32.70 



$239,947,000 

 230,817,000 

 269,610,000 

 330,175,000 



