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being made by the Government for the year 1899, it having decided to 

 await the census enumeration in June, but it is safe to assume that the 

 numbers were approximately the same January 1, 1899, and January 1, 

 1900 there were in the United States 38,651,631 hogs. If the leaf 

 lard of the hogs of the United States had to be used for lard by the 

 death of oleomargarine, it would mean a depreciation in value of 20 

 cents per head, a total of $7,730,326. Thus it will be seen if these 

 measures become laws, at that instant $62,950,434 will be taken directly 

 from the farmers and stock raisers of the country. To that could be 

 added the vast sums invested in manufacturing-plants and the loss in 

 wages to an army of laborers; but that is a field outside of my domain. 

 And now, gentlemen, I wish to call your attention to another phase 

 of this question, and to illustrate it you will find below the number of 

 cattle in the United States as given by the Government report, those 

 States divided into three classes, viz, dairy States, cattle- growing 

 States, and States that are agricultural, but having fewer inilch cows 

 than other cattle, which I will term Southern States: 



Connecticut 210,717 



New York 2,059,715 



New Jersey 263, 157 



Pennsylvania 1, 494, 126 



Delaware 58,035 



Maryland 257,435 



Ohio 1,455,558 



Michigan 801,818 



Indiana 1,234,930 



Illinois 2,324,254 



Wisconsin 1,598,529 



Minnesota 1,237,003 



Total 14,218,200 



SOUTHERN STATES (MORE CATTLE-GROW- 

 ING THAN DAIRY). 



Virginia 567,488 



North Carolina 518, 141 



South Carolina 260. 223 



Georgia 666,147 



Florida 412,820 



Alabama 511,080 



Mississippi 517,809 



Louisiana 294,961 



Tennessee 526,235 



West Virginia 408,198 



Total 4,683,102 



Grand total 43, 902, 414 



By the above it is shown that seventeen States, all of them in the 

 extreme East, except six which are in the middle West, have 14,218,200, 

 while thirty-one States in the West and South have 29,684,214; the six 

 great cattle-growing States of the West, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, 

 Nebraska, Texas, and Colorado, alone having 16,724,930, or 2,506,730 

 head more than the whole seventeen dairy States combined. Where 

 then, gentlemen, will the burden of such legislation fall? Nor is that 

 all. Is it to be supposed that the stock raisers, farmers, and feeders of 

 the State of Illinois, with their 1,303,018 cattle, other than milch cows, 

 will willingly consent to have their property depreciated $2,606,036 for 

 the benefit of their creamery neighbors? Is it right to tax the stock 



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