220 RURAL MICHIGAN 



County, witli its population of 331, produced "1,350 

 pounds of pork, 247 pounds of wool sold, 3,825 pounds 

 of butter made." ^ From Ann Arbor came the report 

 that 'Sve raised and disposed of in the year of 1853 

 in our county 1,000 head of fat cattle, 2,000 hogs 

 fatted, 1,000 store hogs, 10,000 sheep-pelts, and 

 200,000 pounds of wool." ^ For statistics of live- 

 stock see Appendix G. 



One of the most striking evidences of the advance 

 registered in Michigan agriculture has been the re- 

 placement of mongrel live-stock by pure-bred types 

 of a few standard varieties. Thus in the census of 

 1920, 1,293 farms reported 2,779 head of pure-bred 

 horses, including 478 Belgian, 45 French Draft, 14 

 Hackney, 1,63 G Percherons, 59 Shire, 205 standard 

 bred, 123 Clydesdale, and 219 of other types. The 

 same census showed 62,800 pure-bred beef breeds 

 of cattle, and 46,533 head of dairy breeds. Of the 

 beef breeds, there were enumerated 1,519 Aberdeen- 

 Angus, 1,825 Hereford, 1,067 Polled Durham, 11,712 

 Shorthorns, and 144 of other types. Of the dairy 

 breeds, 291 were Ayrshire, 429 Brown Swiss, 3,369 

 Guernsey, 32,702 Holstein-Friesian, 8,296 Jersey, 

 1,446 all other breeds. The total number of pure- 

 bred sheep reported from 2,639 farms were 21,342, 

 comprising 24 Cheviot, 72 Dorset Horn, 1,910 Hamp- 

 shire Down, 100 Leicester, 268 Lincoln, 4,998 Merino, 



Ubid., 400. 



^ "Thirteenth Census of the U. S. Abstract with Supple- 

 ment for Mich.," 1910, 336. 



