xxx AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS, POULTRY AND BEES. 



[Includes only domestic animals, poultry, and bees kept on farms and 



ranges.] 



Comparison, 1910 and 1900. — The values of the various kinds of domes- 

 tic animals and of poultry and bees, as reported at the censuses of 1910 

 and 1900, and the changes in such values, are shown in the following 

 table: 



Total 



Cattle -. 



Horses and eolts 



Mules and mule eolts 



Asses and buros 



Swine 



Sheep and laml» 



Goats and kids 



Other animalsj 



Poultry 



Bees 



1910 

 (April 15) 



118 



177 



,003,196 

 ,864,139 

 ,999,124 

 ,551,818 

 280,212 

 693,218 

 ,748,836 

 64,239 

 14,400 

 269,881 

 517,329 



28 



S3 



1900 

 (June 1) 



S3 



- - 

 a. 



Increase* 



100.0 

 30.2 

 45.3 



1.9 



0.1 

 17.7 



1.5 



t 



t 



3.1 



0.1 



$278,830,096 



142,518,902 



77,720,577 



3,586,761 



150,768 



43,764,170 



3,956,142 



146,708 



6,675 



6,535,464 



443,923 



100.0 



51.1 



27.9 



1.3 



0.1 



15.7 



1.4 



0.1 



t 

 2.3 

 0.2 



$114,173,100 



—23,654,763 



100,278,547 



3,965,057 



129,444 



25,929,042 



1,792,694 



—82,469 



7,725 



5,734,417 



73,406 



40.9 

 —16.6 

 129.0 

 110.5 

 85.9 

 59.2 

 45.3 

 —56.2 

 115.7 

 87.7 

 16.5 



*A minus sign ( — ) denotes decrease. 

 tLess than one-tenth of one per cent. 



{Includes for 1910: Deer, $200; buffaloes. $12,200; elk, $2,000. 

 buffaloes, $600; elk, $2,625; Belgian hares, $500. 



For 1900: Deer, $2, .WO; 



During the decade domestic animals, poultry, and bees combined in- 

 creased in value $114,173,000, or 40.9 per cent, in spite of the large de- 

 crease in the value of cattle. The greatest change is noted in the value 

 of horses and colts, the increase in which is over seven-eighths as great 

 as the net gain for live stock as a whole. The decrease in the value of 

 cattle amounted to $23,655,000, or. 16. 6 per cent. This decrease in value 

 is explained in large measure by the fact that, during the decade the 

 number of cattle decreased from 5,367,630 to 4,448,006, or 919,624. This 

 decrease occurred in all classes of cattle except "other cows," which in- 

 creased in number from 461,031 in 1900 to 614,930 in 1910, or 153,899. 

 The census of 1900 was taken as of June 1, after all the spring calves 

 were born, while that of 1910 was taken as of April 15, before the close 

 of the calving season and when the calves on hand were on the average 

 younger than at the enumeration of 1900. As a result, the calves enum- 

 erated were fewer in number and of lower average value in 1910 than 

 in 1900, the number decreasing from 1,290,279 to 569,003 and the average 

 value from $11.17 to $6.74. 



The value of swine increased $25,929,000, or 59.2 per cent; that of poul- 

 try, $5,734,000, or 87.7 per cent; and that of mules and mule colts, $3,965,- 

 000. or 110.5 per cent. 



