26 Western Live-stock Management 
land and almost no sheep except in the Willamette Val- 
ley. Horses are scattered throughout all parts. As the 
range-men and the farmers all have to use a large number 
STEERS AND BULLS 
NUMBER, 1910 
EACH DOT REPRESENTS 
2,000 HEAD 
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477349 | Toon | 231,642 
dogs |g" | ‘ { nates 
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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 cultivated 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 Missouri 
