THE LIVE STOCK FIELD 



Total Value of Farm Animals 



II 



Total 4,880,068,000 $4,319,878,000 $560,190,000 



Average Price Per Head 



1910 1909 Increase Per ct. 



Horses $101.50 $91.0? $10.48 11.5 



Mules 108.57 97.70 10.87 11.1 



Milch cows 35.24 32.00 3.24 10.1 



Other cattle 20.76 18.95 1.81 9.5 



Hogs 9.15 6.22 2.93 47.1 



Sheep 4.07 3.55 52 14.6 



The problems connected with profitable live stock 

 production are becoming more and more complex as 

 the years go by. Prof Herbert W. Mumford, who 

 has charge of the animal husbandry department at 

 the university of Illinois, has probably made as 

 careful a study of this proposition as any man in 

 the country. He has not only visited the stock- 

 growing regions in the United States, but made a 

 thorough investigation of the conditions in the 

 Argentine. He has attempted to get a broad view 

 of the situation and has reached some interesting 

 conclusions. He finds that in a country where 

 agriculture is new, as in the United States, the 

 problems were at first comparatively easy, but as 

 time passed they became more complex and more 

 difficult 



Until a permanent system of agriculture has been 

 established, brief periods arise when grain farming 

 becomes more profitable than live stock produc- 

 tion, because temporarily the price of feeds used 

 in the production of live stock becomes relatively 

 higher than the price of animal products. These 



