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RESOURCES OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA. 



TABLE 40. 

 Selected animal products per farm, in southern Alabama, 1909. 



slaughtered (which are doubtless mostly hogs), evidently on 

 account of its large peanut crop, as already pointed out. In 

 horses and mules and butter no region in southern Alabama 

 comes up to the State average. 



By comparing the number of animals of various kinds 

 raised in a year with the number living on the average farm 

 at the time of the census, as shown in Table 35, we can get 

 the approximate birth and death rate for each species. As- 

 suming that all animals were raised on the farms where 

 found, and none bought, and that all animals raised are ulti- 

 mately sold or slaughtered, (which of course is a rather 

 faulty assumption), the average annual birth-rate for the 



