THE LIVE STOCK FIELD II 



Total Value of Farm Animals 



JQ10 1909 IllCr63>S6 



Horses 82,051,555,000 $1,816,074,000 $235,481,000 



Mules 423,198,000 369,997,000 53,201,000 



Milch cows 758,434,000 674,813,000 83,621,000 



Other cattle 1,012,847,000 960,966,000 51,881,000 



Hogs 411,177,000 310,806,000 100,371,000 



Sheep 222,857,000 187,222,000 35,635,000 



Total 4,880,068.000 $4,319,878,000 $660,190,000 



Average Price Per Head 



1910 1909 Increase Per ot. 



Horses $101.50 $91.0f $10.48 11.5 



Mules 108.57 97.70 10.87 11.1 



Milch cows 35.24 32.00 3.24 10.1 



Other cattle 20.76 18.95 1.81 9.5 



Hogs 9.15 6.22 2.93 47.1 



Sheep 4.07 3.55 52 14.6 



The problems connected with profitable live stock 

 production are becoming more and more complex as 

 the years go by. Prof Herbert W. Mumford, who 

 has charge of the animal husbandry department at 

 the university of Illinois, has probably made as 

 careful a study of this proposition as any man in 

 the country. He has not only visited the stock- 

 growing regions in the United States, but made a 

 thorough investigation of the conditions in the 

 Argentine. He has attempted to get a broad view 

 of the situation and has reached some interesting 

 conclusions. He finds that in a country where 

 agriculture is new, as in the United States, the 

 problems were at first comparatively easy, but as 

 time passed they became more complex and more 

 diflScult. 



Until a permanent system of agriculture has been 

 established, brief periods arise when grain farming 

 becomes more profitable than live stock produc- 

 tion, because temporarily the price of feeds used 

 in the production of live stock becomes relatively 

 higher than the price of animal products. These 



