Animal Wealth of the United States 



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NUMBER OF SWINE ON FARMS AND RANGES. 



IOWA 



ILLINOIS 



MISSOURI 



NEBRASKA 



INDIANA 



KANSAS 



OHIO 



TEXAS 



WISCONSIN 



TENNESSEE 



KENTUCKY 



ARKANSAS 



MINNESOTA 



GEORGIA 



ALABAMA 



N.CAROLINA 



MISSISSIPPI 



MICHIGAN 



PENNSYLVANIA 



VIRGINIA 



S DAKOTA 



LOUISIANA 



aanai 



NEW YORK 





INDIAN TER 



1 



S CAROLINA 



3X3H 



CALIFORNIA 



im. 



OKLAHOMA 





TLORIDA 



m hi 





WEST VIRGINIA 



mma 





MARYLAND 







OREGON 







N.DAKOTA 







WASHINGTON 







NEW JERSEY 



m 





I0AHO 



■ 





COLORADO 



■ 





VERMONT 



s 





MAINE 



■ 





MASSACHUSETTS 



I 





UTAH 





NCW HAMPSHIRE 







From "Statistical Atlas" 

 for Twelfth Census (1900), by 

 Henry Gannett, published by 

 U. S. Census Bureau 



The number of persons engaged in the 

 live-stock and interdependent industries 

 at that time was : 



In agricultural pursuits 10,381,765 



Stock raisers, herders, etc 169,976 



Butchers 1 13,193 



Meat packers I3,77§ 



Leather and its products 557,401 



Candle, soap, and tallow makers. . . . 4,020 



A total of 11,240,131 persons, whose 

 livelihood was dependent directly and in- 

 directly on the live-stock industry, or 38 

 per cent of our entire working popula- 

 tion. 



Till'. GREATEST OF OUR INDUSTRIES 



The incidental branch of the live-stock 

 industry, that of slaughtering and meat 

 packing, not including retail butchering, 

 ranks No. 1 in all of our industries in 



value of net products, the value in 1899 

 being $684,119,221. The present year it 

 will reach $1,000,000,000. It ranked No. 

 17 in the number of wage earners, this 

 number being 69,441 ; No. 15 in rank in 

 value of wages, the amount being $33,- 

 923,253 ; No. 10 in amount of capital em- 

 ployed, this being $190,706,927. When 

 the interdependent industries connected 

 with the live-stock industry are combined 

 with it this industry takes first rank with 

 all of the industries of the United States 

 in value of products, amount of wages 

 paid, and capital employed. 



Of all that has been spoken or written 

 concerning our great industries, the least 

 has been said of the largest. I doubt if 

 one person in ten would be able to tell 

 offhand what our greatest industry is 

 and give even approximately its annual 

 value. Some would say our iron and 

 steel production, with its more than 

 $1,000,000,000 worth of yearly output. 

 Others would say our textile industry is 

 the largest ; and yet our woolen, cotton, 

 silk, and linen goods combined do not 

 equal our iron and steel products. 

 Others would perhaps say our mineral 

 products, which in 1904 amounted in 

 value to $1,289,000,000. Some might 

 think our building industry the greatest. 

 Some would no doubt say our lumber 

 and timber products, and others our 

 flouring and grist mill products. Some 

 might say our freight traffic or total rail- 

 road earnings of about $2,000,000,000. 

 But they would all be wrong, for, as I 

 have already indicated, the one branch 

 of industry under consideration is greater 

 than any of the others I have named, 

 and it far exceeds any other single agri- 



