816,754. In number of horses Iowa leads with 1,367,329 

 and in average price Rhode Island leads with $95.43. The 

 smallest number, 10,443, is credited to Rhode Island and 

 smallest average price, §15.80, to New Mexico. In number 

 of milch cows New York leads with 1,572,443 and in aver- 

 age price New Jerse}- leads with $35.20. The smallest 

 number, 14,878, is credited to Arizona and smallest average 

 price, $10.76, to Arkansas. In number of oxen and other 

 cattle Texas leads with 6,591,787 and in average price New 

 Jersey leads with $29.11. The smallest number, 11,713, is 

 credited to Rhode Island, and the smallest average price, 

 $7.02, to Arkansas. Reports from all sections of the country 

 (April, 1894) indicate a generally high condition of all 

 farm animals. 



Crops of 1893, Report No 113, March, 1894. 

 Corn. 

 This report states that the tendency to an enlargement of 

 the area devoted to corn, as noted in a former report, does 

 not seem to be sustained by the experience of the past two 

 years. The crop of 1893 amounted to 1,619,494,000 bushels, 

 of which 585,816,350 bushels or 36.2 per cent was on hand 

 March 1, 1894; 1,369,159,980 bushels or 84.5 per cent 

 was consumed in the county where grown and 250,334,020 

 or 15.5 per cent was shipped out of the county where grown. 

 Ordinarily only the seven Western States of Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska have any 

 material excess oVer what is required for home consumption. 

 Eighty-five and six-tenths per cent of the crop of 1893 was 

 merchantable. The massed value of the corn crop of 1893, 

 as estimated in the December report, was $591,625,627, or 

 an average value of 36.5 cents per bushel. The crop for 

 Massachusetts is given as 1,355,000 bushels, of which 

 1,260,150 or 93 per cent was merchantable. The average 

 value of the merchantable was $0.55 per bushel, of the un- 

 merchantable $0.33 per bushel; total value, $724,384. 



Wheat. 

 The crop of 1893 amounted to 396,132,000 bushels, of 

 which 114,059,560 or 28 8 per cent remained on hand 

 March 1, 1894; 154,018,770 or 38.9 per cent was con- 



