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much use. The brood mare can do nearly a full amount 

 of farm work besides raising a colt, so that only a small 

 part of her. feed need be charged to the cost of raising colts. 

 For these reasons, colts can be raised where it would not 

 pay to raise beef. Table 8 shows that colts are most 

 numerous where feed is cheapest, but are raised to some 

 extent in other states. When the price of horses drops, it 

 is the states with high-priced feed that are first forced out 

 of colt production ; as the price rises again, they are the 

 last states to go into the business. 



TABLE 8. COLT PRODUCTION l 



1 Horse arid mule colts for each 100 mares, stallions, and geldings born 

 before 1909. 



60. Relation of transportation to dairying. Butter, 

 condensed milk, milk flour, and cheese are easily shipped. 

 The center of production of these products is constantly 

 moving westward. Much distress has been caused by the 

 persistence of butter making in some Eastern regions 

 that are being forced out of the business. In a region 

 that has to depend to a considerable extent on shipped-in 

 feed, the competition with dairymen in the region from 

 which the grain comes is ruinous. 



