64 



Yearhooh of the Department of AgHcultm-e, 1921. 



Fig. 72. — Cattle in 1920 constituted the leading class of live stock in the United States 

 on the basis of value. This value was almost equally divided between the dairy and 

 beef types. Between 1910 and 1920 the total value of cattle in the Tnited States in- 

 creased 143 per cent, due mostly to an increase in value per head of 125 per cent : 

 whereiis the value of all horses decreased 14 per cent, due to exactly the same decrea^^e 

 in value per head. Cattle constituted 46 per cent of the value of all farm animals, 

 horses and mules .32 per cent, swine 12 per cent, sheep and goats 5 per cent, and poultry 

 nearly 5 per cent. The swine, however, produce annually pork and lard having a valu'^ 

 gi'eater than that of the beef and veal from the cattle. 



CATTLE 



LIVE STOCK ON FARMS 

 NUMBER AND VALUE 



TWENTY LEADING STATES. JAN. 1,1920 



SHEEP & GOATS W//////A SWINE 



D POULTRY 



STATE 



VALUE 



MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 



200 400 600 



IOWA 



TEXAS 



ILLINOIS 



MISSOURI 



NEBRASKA 



KANSAS 



NEW YORK 



MINNESOTA 



OHIO 



INDIANA 



SO. DAKOTA 



PENNSYLVANIA 



CALIFORNIA 



OKLAHOMA 



MICHIGAN 



TENNESSEE 



COLORADO 



KENTUCKY 



NO.DAKOTA 



GEORGIA 



Fig. 73. — Iowa leads the States in value of live stock on farms, hut is exceeded h.v 

 Texas in number of animal units. It is noteworthy that 9 of the 11 leading States in 

 value of live stock are located wholly or partly in the Corn Belt. On the other hand, 

 Georgia is the only State lying almost wholly in the Cotton Belt that is included in this 

 list of 20 leading live-stock States. The concentration of live stock in the Corn Belt, 

 and in the dairying centers of the Ilay and Pasture Region is shown in Figure 107. 

 Cattle and horses and mules, it will be noted, constitute in the different States from 

 six-tenths to nine-tenths of the value of all live stock. 



