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Disease and 

 Exposure 



pie the actual conditions. We think that because we sometimes 

 have a mild climate that the loss doesn't amount to anything. 

 Run down that column : Loss from disease, cattle, 25 per thou- 

 sand; from exposure, 25 per thousand; sheep, from disease, 31 Losses from 

 per thousand; from exposure, 31 per thousand; swine, from dis- 

 ease, 71 per thousand. These are the figures from the North 

 Atlantic states, much lower than from Georgia. If we are going 

 to do anything with the live stock business, we must reduce that 

 rate of loss. 



This is the status of the live stock industry in Georgia, 

 showing there has been a decided increase in number in our 

 state. The large increase there is from hogs. The increase from 

 the other animals does not amount to very much. 



Now, as to the replacement, taking the state of Georgia : 

 The average of horses and mules compares very favorably with 

 the average in the country as a whole, but, unfortunately, those 

 are the things we buy. We buy most of our horses and mules; 

 we do not raise them. The average value of our cattle is $16.20 

 as against $35.88 in the rest of the country; sheep, our value is 

 $2.80 as against $7.14; swine, $9.00 as against $11.73. 



Another line of work we are trying t,o carry on is something 

 of the food problem. Here we have) three foodstuffs : Silage 

 and cottonseed meal give the greatest production of butter. This 

 year we are trying out cottonseed meal, peanut meal and velvet 

 bean for dairy cattle, to be presented to the people another year. 



This chart indicates something of the relative number of the 

 blooded cows and the good cows that will be required to make 

 the same profit. We have good dairy cows that make as much One Good 

 profit as 41 of our average dairy cows in the state. Another , °"i worth 

 condition we are up against is the relative food value of differ- 

 ent crops that we can grow. 



Now, as to the question of what we can do with live stock. 

 This is in the Coastal Plain region. This is a statement of the 

 value of live stock at the Agricultural College. They started in 

 September, 1907, with $1,917 worth of live stock. They have 

 spent from that time up to June 1, 1916, over»$9,000. The value 

 of live stock in June, 1916, was $17,000. Here is an item I call 

 your attention to : For the purchase of live stock we spent over 

 a thousand dollars a year, with sales of live stock to June, 1916, 

 amounting to $14,000. The average increase in the inventory 



