CHAPTER XIX 

 CATTLE 



CATTLE rank second only to horses in market value in 

 the United States. Our farms support some twenty- 

 two million dairy cows, or one to approximately every four 

 people. In addition, there are about thirty-seven million 

 other cattle, chiefly calves and beef stock. The value of 

 each of these two great groups is about the same, nearly a 

 billion dollars, or almost two billion dollars for the whole. 



1. Dairy Cattle 



Dairying is one of the leading American industries. 

 Each of six states, Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, Minnesota, 

 Illinois and Texas, has more than a million dairy cows, and 

 four other states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Mis- 

 souri, have more than three-quarters of a million each. 

 These ten states supply fifty-three per cent, of all our dairy 

 cattle. 



The following chart shows the percentage of all the farm 

 dairy cows of the United States found in each of these 

 ten leading dairy states : 



Wisconsin 7.3% 



New York 7.1% 



Iowa 6.5% 



Minnesota 5.5% 



Illinois 5.0% 



Texas 5.0% 



Pennsylvania 4.6% 



Ohio 4.2% 



Michigan 3.9% 



Missouri 3.8% 



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