PROGRESSIVE BEEF CATTLE RAISING 



of war, 10,15-1919, the average exports were 421,000,000 

 pounds, an increase of approximately 526 percent. 



During times of peace the export trade is a very minor 

 factor in supporting beef prices. In the past 14 years, 

 according to the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, we 

 have exported the following percentage of our annual 



beef Crop: Total beef Total beef Percent beef 



production exports exported 



1907 7,31O,OOO,OOO 352,000,000 4.80 



1908 6,676,000,000 228,000,000 3 .41 



1909 7,071,000,000 163,000,000 2.03 



1910 7,323,000,000 110,000,000 1.50 



1911 7,036,000,000 92,000,000 i . 30 



1911 6,509,000,000 56,000,000 .86 



1913 5,913,000,000 47,000,000 .79 



1914 5,639,000,000 95,000,000 '1.68 



1915 5,816,000,000 399,000,000 6.86 



1916 6,118,000,000 287,000,000 4.69 



1917 6,686,000,000 376,000,000 5 .62 



1918 7,641,000,000 728,000,000 Q-53 



1919 6,571,000,000 314,000,000 4.78 



1 920 6, 1 1 1 ,000,000 1 64,000,000 2 . 68 



The war increased the percentage of our beef exports 

 almost six times, the average for the first four years 

 preceding the war being i . 1 6 percent, while for the four 

 war years it was 6.67 percent. If one compares the 

 calendar years 1918, 1919 and 1920, one factor in the 

 dropping beef prices of that period becomes apparent, for 

 exports of 728,000,000 pounds in 1918 drop to 3 14,000,000 

 pounds in 1919, and 164,000,000 pounds in 1920. It is 

 difficult to say just where the percentage of exports 

 becomes large enough to be important, economic and 

 political conditions having greater effect on prices per- 

 haps than any mathematical relation. 



In 1840 the center of production 

 of all cattle was about ten miles 



*> uth of S P encer ' West Vir g inia < 

 and about 50 miles north of Charles- 

 ton, the capital. At this time no distinction was made 

 in the census between milk and "other" cattle. Dur- 



Poge Forty-eight 



