THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART XIII. 7o7 



HOLDINGS OF CATTLE. 



Breeders' Gazette. 

 Some interesting statisitcs may be culled from the completed census 

 of cattle taken by the United States government for June 1, 1900. By 

 grouping the various states and territories into divisions according to 

 the conditions under which cattle are usually kept we have practically 

 four different cuts of the country — the corn belt where most of the feeding 

 for market is done, the range country where the cattle run out all year 

 round, the south and far east north of Maryland. Taking the census fig- 

 ures and arranging the holdings according to numbers in these divisions 

 we get the following tables. 



CORN BELT. 



State. No. cattle owned 



Iowa 5,367,630 



Kansas 4,491,078 



Nebraska 3,176,243 



Illinois 3,104,010 



Missouri 2,978,589 



Wisconsin 2.314,105 



Ohio 2,053,313 



Minnesota ■ 1,871,325 



Indiana 1,684,478 



Michigan 1,376,408 



Total 28,417,179 



RANG] . 



Texas 9,428,196 



Oklahoma Territory 1,709,752 



South Dakota 1,528,486 



Indian Territory 1,499,364 



California 1,444,624 



Colorado 1,433,318 



New Mexico 991,859 



Montana 968,387 



Arizona 742,635 



Oregon 700,303 



Total 20,446,924 



THE SOUTH. 



Kentucky 1,083,248 



Tennessee . . : • 912,183 



Georgia 899,491 



Arkansas 894,535 



Mississippi 873,356 



Virginia 825,512 



Alabama 799,734 



Florida 751,261 



Louisiana 670,295 



Total 8,349,397 



