AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN xxxi 



The value of horses and eolts ($177,999,000) is about one and one-half 

 times that of cattle, and the two together represent 75.5 per cent of the 

 value of all live stock; swine represent 17.7 per cent and poultry 3.1 per 

 cent. The value of poultry is more than twice as great as the value of 

 sheep and lambs. 



Domestic animals, 1910. — The next table summarizes the statistics of 

 domestic animals for the state, recorded as of April 15, 1910. Cattle and 

 sheep are divided into age and sex groups, while horses, mules, and swine 

 are presented by age groups only. 



Of the total number of farms enumerated, 213,131 or 98.2 per cent, re- 

 port domestic animals of some kind, the number without any domestic ani- 

 mals being only :',,913. 



Of all the farms in the state, 94.7 per cent report cattle, 93.3 per cent, 

 "dairy cows," and only 41 per cent, "other cows." Only 3,015 farms have 

 cattle without having dairy cows. The farms reporting dairy cows show 

 an average of 7 per farm, which is also the average number of other cows 

 per farm reporting that class. 



Horses and colts are reported by 96.7 per cent of all the farms in the 

 state, while 42.6 per cent report colts born in 1909, and 15.1 per cent, 

 spring colts. Spring colts are valued at a little over one-half as much as 

 yearling colts and more than one-fourth as much as mature horses; the 

 average value of the latter is $128.40. 



About one farmer out of every ten reports mules and mule colts. The 

 average values of mules of the different ages are about 20 per cent higher 

 than those of horses of the corresponding age groups, except in the .case 

 of mature animals, where the difference is a little over 15 per cent. 



Sheep and lambs are reported from 21,810 farms, or one out of every 

 ten. Of these farms, 77.3 per cent report spring lambs, the number of the 

 latter being equal to 55.5 per cent of the number of ewes. This compara- 

 tively small proportion is doubtless due to the early date of enumeration. 

 Ewes are reported from all but 895 of the farms reporting sheep, and for 

 the farms reporting the average is over 32 ewes per farm. The farms re- 

 porting rams and wethers show an average of about 8 per farm. 



Of all farms, 84.8 per cent report swine, the average being over 41 per 

 farm reporting. The average value of the swine reported as "hogs and 

 pigs born before January 1, 1910," is $14.88, while that of spring pigs is 

 less than one-eighth of this amount. 



