6 MAINE AGRICUIvTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I917. 



From the figures given in the preceding tables it is possible 

 to make some calculations to show average individual values. 

 These are of interest because they furnish some indications of 

 the cash value which rewards attention and care devoted to 

 the breeding of animals. Let us first consider the average 

 values of the different kinds of live stock on the farm. These 

 figures will furnish a base with which comparisons may be 

 made. They measure in a crude way, but still a real one, the 

 stage of development or progress which the live stock breeding 

 industry of the country has attained. Table V gives the figures, 

 calculated from the data given in Table II above. 



TABLE V. 



Average Values of Live Stock on the Farm. 



Average Value of 

 Kind of Stock the Individual 



Horses $105.94 



Mules 124.80 



Milch cows 39-39 



Other cattle 21.20 



Sheep 3.47 



Swine 8.00 



It is to be expected that animals chosen for export will be 

 on the average of somewhat better quahty than those left on 

 the farm. A part go out of the country for breeding purposes, 

 and these will have a powerful effect in raising the average 

 value of exported stock. In accordance with expectation, the 

 average values for exported stock are seen in Table VI to be 

 in every case somewhat greater than those for farm stock. The 

 relative amount of this increase, shown as the percentage which 

 the difference in values is of the farm value, is given for each 

 class of stock in a third column of the table. 



