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Milk Production Study. 



Regular reporters each month are asked the following questions relative to 

 milk production on their farm on a specific day: (A) Number of cows milked 

 on your farm yesterday. (B) Number of all milk cows, dry or in milk, in your 

 herd yesterday. (C) Total production of milk by your herd yesterday in either 

 pounds or gallons. 



While this monthly survey has been in operation but little over a year, and 

 much of its value will lie in comparisons that will be built up aa the records in- 

 crease, the results of the 1925 reports will be of interest to reporters cooperating 

 in this study and are therefore summarized as tentative figures, for such months 

 as the data was found to be representative. It is expected that the representa- 

 tiveness of the data will increase, since reporters have shown considerable interest 

 in^this survey in numbers of returns made each month. 



RESULTS OF 1925 MILK PRODUCTION INQUIRIES 



#Average pounds for cows milked on last day of month preceding. 



Hogs. 



Hog numbers in Montana have shown a large expansion in the period 1920 

 to date, increasing from 167,000, the estimate for January 1, 1920, to 292,000 on 

 January 1, 1924, declining slightly to 280,000 a year later and holding at that 

 figure on January 1, 1926. 



The peak of hog shipments was reached in 1925 when approximately 225,000 

 hogs went to market in the calendar months of that year against 167,000 in 

 1924, 80,000 in 1923, and 41,000 in 1920. The bulk of Montana's hog exports have 

 alweays gone to western markets and in 1925 these markets continued to take a 

 very high percentage of the total. 



Montana Pig Crop Survey, 1935. 



Results of the December, 1925, pig survey for Montana as transmitted by the 

 United States Crop Reporting Board at Washington, through the Montana Cooper- 

 ative Crop Reporting Service show that although the number of sows farrowed 

 last fall were 20.6 per cent less than those of the fall of 1924, pigs saved were 

 only 10.5 per cent less than in the fall of 1924. Practically the same situation 

 occurred in the case of the spring pig crop of 1925, which gave a decrease of 

 18.8 per cent in numbers of sows farrowed compared with spring farrowings of 

 1924 with a resulting pig crop but 8.7 per cent smaller. Larger litters for both 

 spring and fall pig crops compared with preceding years in which the survey has 

 been taken in Montana were a feature of this year's report. Sows bred for 

 spring pigs are 1.1 per cent more than the farrowings of the spring of 1925. 



