CHAPTER XX 

 HORSES 



MORE than twenty million horses are to be found on 

 the farms of the United States. These horses on the 

 farms alone are worth the enormous sum of two and a 

 quarter billion dollars, or more than all our cattle, both 

 dairy and beef. The raising of horses is therefore one of 

 the leading industries connected with agriculture. 



1. The Leading Horse Raising States 

 Slightly more than fifty-two per cent, of all the horses 

 found on the farms of this country are raised in the follow- 

 ing ten states : Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma. The farms 

 of Iowa and Illinois support approximately one and one-half 

 million horses for each state ; Texas, Kansas, Missouri and 

 Nebraska have more than a million each, and Ohio, Indiana, 

 Minnesota and Oklahoma, more than three-fourths of a 

 million each. 



Proportion supplied by each state. The proportion 

 of all the horses found on our farms which is supplied by 

 each of these ten leading horse states is shown in the fol- 

 lowing chart: 



Iowa 7.05% 



Illinois 7.0% 



Texas 5.5% 



Kansas 5.0% 



Missouri 5.0% 



Nebraska 5.0% 



Ohio 4.4% 



Indiana 4.2% 



Minnesota 4.1% 



Oklahoma 3.7% 



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