10 BULLETIN 997, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 



WORKSTOCK. 



The total number of workstock of different kinds, their weight, 

 and their value on the farms in different areas at the time of the 

 investigation are given in Table 5. 



Table 5. — Number of workstock, their weight and value, in different areas. 



Area. 



Madison County, Ohio. . . 



Seneca County, Ohio 



Madison County, Ind 



Montgomery County, Ind 



Livingston County, 111 



Knox County, 111 



All 



Num- 

 ber 

 of 

 farms 



Mares. 



Num- 

 ber. 



168 

 103 

 136 

 162 

 293 

 222 



Aver- 

 age 

 weight. 



Lbs. 

 1,409 

 1,448 

 1,405 

 1,338 

 1,367 

 1,320 



1, 084 1, 372 



Aver- 

 age 

 val- 



Dolls. 

 156 

 148 

 134 

 128 

 151 

 123 



140 



Geldings. 



Num- 

 ber. 



75 

 56 

 69 

 111 



172 

 165 



648 



Aver- 

 age 

 weight. 



Lbs. 

 1,394 

 1,446 

 1,355 

 1,344 

 1,331 

 1,298 



1,350 



Aver- 

 age 

 val- 



Dolls. 

 150 

 142 

 125 

 131 

 126 

 119 



129 



Mules. 



Num- 

 ber. 



Aver- 

 age 

 weight. 



Lbs. 

 1,143 

 1,075 

 1,050 

 1,075 

 1,189 

 1,130 



1,125 



Aver- 



val- 

 ue. 



Dolls. 

 161 

 212 

 120 

 186 

 159 

 204 



180 



The larger number of mares than geldings in each area indicates 

 that when disposing of surplus workstock these farmers have usually 

 sold geldings in preference to mares. Mules were found on 56 of 

 the 286 farms, and on most of these 56 there was but one span, 

 the average number per farm where mules were used being 2.6. 



The number of colts in comparison to the number of workstock on 

 these farms is shown in Table 6. The number of " other" colts in- 

 cludes all young stock which had not been broken to harness. Most 

 of them were foaled in 1919 and 1918, but some young horses and 

 mules foaled in 1917 had never been worked. For all farms there 

 was only one 1920 colt for each 16.9 head of workstock, and on more 

 than three-fourths of the farms there were no 1«920 colts. Only 10 

 per cent of the mares on these farms raised colts during the year of 

 the investigation. 



Table 6. — Number of workstock and number of colts in different areas. 



Area. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Number 

 of work- 

 stock. 



Number of 1920 

 colts. 



Number of 

 other colts. 



Madison County, Ohio 



Seneca County, Ohio 



Madison County, Indiana 



Montgomery County, Indiana 

 Livingston County, Illinois... 

 Knox County, Illinois 



All 



262 

 165 

 209 

 320 

 501 

 421 



21 (11 farms).. 



8 (6 farms) 



19 (12 farms).. 

 11 (8 farms)... 

 27 (15 farms).. 

 25 (14 farms).. 



2S6 



111 (66 farms) . 



127 (24 farms). 

 30 (16 farms). 

 6S (16 farms). 

 40 (17 farms). 

 83 (30 farms). 

 63 (20 farms). 



411 (123 farms). 



