10 



PROFITABLE STOCK RAISING 



Number and Value of Horses and Mules by States 

 January i, 1910 



Total.. 20,212 $101.50 $2,051,555 3,898 $108.57 $423,198 



From the above it will be seen that the value of 

 live stock in the United States at the beginning of 

 1910 was enormous. According to B. W. Snow, 

 statistician for Orange Judd Company publications, 

 the stock on American farms was worth on Jan- 

 uary I, 1910, $4,880,068,000; the increase during the 

 year 1909 amounted to the enormous sum of 

 $560,190,000, or the largest annual increase ever 

 recorded. 



This upward movement of prices had been in 

 progress for more than ten years, so that the im- 

 portance, from a money standpoint alone, of the 

 live stock industry, is apparent. The value of the 

 different kind of farm animals and increase during 

 the year 1909 is shown in the table below: 



