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Western Live-sfock Management 



land and almost no sheep except in the ^Yillamette Val- 

 ley. Horses are scattered throughout all parts. As the 

 range-men and the farmers all have to use a large number 



Fig. 5. 



of horses, the distribution is fairly uniform, but they are 

 slightly more numerous where agriculture is better de- 

 veloped and a large amount of farm work done. Hogs 

 are confined strictly to the culti\-ated districts and the 

 same is true with dairy cattle. Hogs and dairy cattle 

 go together in the West, while the close connection be- 

 tween hogs and beef cattle which we find in the Corn- 

 Belt does not exist here. 



LIVE-STOCK MARKETS 



A large part of the West is tributary to the big live- 

 stock markets of the eastern states and much of the 

 stock has an eastward drift to the markets of the ^lissouri 



