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TABLE VI. 

 Average Values of Live Stock Exported. 



Percentage Increase in 

 Average Value of Ex- 

 Average Value ported Over Farm 

 Kind or Stock of Individual Live Stock 



Horses $152.92 ' 44-3 



Mules 162.50 30.2 



Cattle 87.70 216.7' 



Sheep 5-24 51-4 



■ Swine 8.66 8.2 



While the relative increases of value seen here are respect- 

 able, considered by themselves, they are insignificant in com- 

 parison with these exhibited in the valuation of animals 

 imported for breeding purposes. The figures for the latter are 

 shown in Table VI L Avhich is calculated in the same way as 

 Table VL 



TABLE VII. 

 Average Values of Live Stock Imported for Breeding Purposes. 



Percentage Increase in 

 Average Value of Im- 

 Average Value parted Over Farm 

 Kind of Stock of Individual Live Stock 



Horses $324.66 206.5 



Cattle 148.39 435-8 



Sheep 2177 529.2 



Taking these figures at their face value, for the moment, 

 they indicate that the average horse imported into the United 

 States for breeding purposes is worth three times as much as 

 the average horse on an American farm. The average cow or 

 bull imported is worth nearly five times as much as the average 

 cow or bull on the farm ; while the average imported sheep is 

 more than six and a quarter times as valuable as the home 

 product on the farm. 



These figures furnish an impressive object lesson as to the 

 value of paying attention to the breeding of live stock. Funda- 

 mentally the enhanced valuation of the imported animals rests 

 on the fact that they are better bred than the average farm 



'^Calculated on the basis of weighted mean of the two classes of cattle 

 distinguished in Table V. 



