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I.IVr-MTfXK HKI'OHTISO PH«MI»«"T 



F(»r tlic currt'iil \ i-m linn- i>- im iririra>-r in inc I iiihI> of t Ins iii\ i.-inin, 

 prjKl i«'all_v all of wliirli has Ix-cn ijs<m| for stniiiii^ tin* livr-^loi-k rv- 

 portiu}; project, wliich is now jjrttinK umlrr way in jfo<Ml Mhupi* mul 

 alr(Mi(h' showing some rcsMJIs. 



I iiHj;lit say that up lo this yrar thr livo-stock work of ihi- un i-.m.ii 

 has l)«M>n very liiiiiird and very unsalisfartory to the livi»-slork 

 iiitorrsts ill that thestalistics havonot Ihmmi instifliciont dclitil tofiirni.Hli 

 th«' iiifoiiiiation (hat the livj'-stock inton'sls rHTfJiMJ. 'I'lir work 

 ituliKicd up to this year simply an annual rstimali* of (he nuinhcr of 

 live stock on farms, hascd on a pcrccnta^'c method of estimating, 

 taking the census as a hasis. The mortality (»f live stoi'k has uUo 

 l)eerj estimated, the i-ep(»rl hein;,' simply an index numl)er showinjj 

 the relative mortality from year to y«'ar. The numher of hrood stock 

 on farms on the 1st of Ai)ril has Ixm'H estimated on a percentajje luiHiM, 

 and the numher of stocK hoj^s on farms on .Septi'inher I. That ron- 

 resentod all of the live-stock work. When we hei^an lo |>hin for tne 

 new Work it was found that there wore so niaiiv deniantls for work it 

 would he necessary to limit it to certain fields in order to pet results, 

 or the work would he spread out so much that nothing; would he 

 accomplished. Two conferences were held, one in ("hii-afro in Nfav, 

 an«l the (ttlu'r in I)env«'r in .July, at N\hich wrvr present a luunher of 

 live-stock producers and representatives of live-stock associations, 

 railroads, and otluM* orjranizahons. 



In addition a number of men who cotdd not he j)resent, like re[)re- 

 sentativcs of the Texas Cattle Association, for instance, send letters 

 su<;<;estin«; what they wanted in the way of service, and based on the 

 meetin<j:s in Chicaj^o and Denver a rather elaborate prof^ram of what 

 the live-stock rej)ortini; service should inchnle was outlfned. We 

 ascertained directly from the peoj)le who are raising stock what they 

 wanted. Mr. Bi.xby, Mr. Tondinson, and some of the other live- 

 stock association men told us what they wantcMl, and our proi;ram is 

 lar»;ely based on what these men said was needed. The program as 

 nt)W outlined includes the following things: First, an effort will 

 be made to make the January 1 estimate of numbers on farms more 

 accurate and have it give more details than in (he past. Heretofore 

 the ilivision has siinj)ly rejjorted the number of cattle and milk cows, 

 sheep, swine, and horses, but nothing a*; to age or sex. This year 

 will l)e the first attempt to separate the classes of cattle into steers, 

 bulls, and cows and calves, and. if po.ssible. make an estimate as to 

 the number of steers of did'erent ages. The information will be 

 gathered in several ways, the principal one of which will be to get 

 reports from thousands of individual ranches and farms, telling just 

 what they have on their own farms, in the way of stock of various 

 classes and ages, and from those re])orts W(trk uj) ratios which will be 

 apj)lied to the totals. 



Four regional live-stock men have been j)ut into the lield and sev- 

 eral avSsistant live-stock statisticians have been addeil. We now have 

 a live-stock statistician in Texas, a regional live-stock statistician for 

 Arizona and Now Mexico, a regional man in Denver, with an assistant, 

 one in Wyoming, who covoi*s the Wyoming-Nebraska-South Dakota 

 area, one in the (Jreat Bjusin area, with hoad(iuartoi-s at Salt Lake 

 City, and through an arrangement with the Live-Stock Marketing 



