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tion has been given to dairy breeds and now many 

 farms are stocked with this class of cattle exclusively. 

 Nearly all the improved breeds of cattle have been 

 introduced and kept in the state, although some 

 breeds have so far made little showing. In many 

 sections of the state there are large feeders of cattle 

 which consume the coarse products of the farm, as 

 well as purchased grain, at a fair profit, and leave 

 a large quantity of manure. The num1)er of cattle 

 in the state at last report was 643,452." ^ 



The number of milch cows in Michigan, January 

 1, 1920, was 873,000, at an average price a head of 

 $96, with a farm value of $83,808,000. To this 

 are to be added 773,000 head of other cattle, having 

 an average price a head of $42.80, and a farm value 

 of $33,084,000.2 The Bureau of Crop Estimates 

 in its report on live-stock for 1920 notes a 2 per 

 cent decline in the number of milch cows during 

 that year, which is equivalent to 17,000 head. The 

 decline in numbers and of price, put at $26 a head, 

 is attributed to the lessening in demand for dairy 

 l^roducts. The decline in the numbers of cattle other 

 than milch cows was found to be 6 per cent, while 

 a loss of 34 per cent in price was announced. 



Of the total number of cattle in Michigan, the 

 Bureau of Crop Estimates (May 1920) reported that 

 Aberdeen-Angus amounted to 1.7 per cent; Ayr- 

 shire, .5; Brown Swiss, .6; Devon, .1; Dutch Belted, 

 .1; Galloway, .7; Guernsey, (i.l; Hereford, 4.1; 



'"Kept. Mich. Bd. A;,n-.," 1892, 357. 



* "Yearbook," U. S. Dcpt. Agr., 1919, 659. 



