REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



475 



VALUES OF FARM ANIMALS. 



Diagram VI illustrates the comparative value of the animals of the 

 farm, in 1884, by a circle which represents the aggregate value, while 

 segments of the same, in different colors, show the relative proportion 

 of each kind of animals. The prominence of the cattle interest is 

 strikingly manifest, being 44.8 per cent, of the aggregate. Horses 

 come next, with 33.8 per cent.; swine, 10; mules, G.5; sheep, 4.9. 



The values are as follows: 



Horses $833,734,400 



Mules 161,214,976 



Cattle 1,106,715,703 



Slu.p t 119,902,706 



Swiue 246,301, 139 



Total 2, 407, 859, 924 



INCREASE OF FARM ANIMALS IN THIRTY YEARS. 



Diagram VII shows the comparative numbers of horses, mules, cattle, 

 sheep, and swine, at four decennial periods. The differences are shown 

 by horizontal lines. The numbers are thus presented: 



Stock. 



1850. 



1860. 



1870. 



1880. 





4, 336,719 

 559, 331 

 17, 778, 907 

 21,723.220 

 30, 354,213 



6, 249, 174 

 1, 151, 148 

 25, 02' i, 019 

 22. 471. 275 

 33, 512, 867 



7, 145, 370 

 1, 125,415 

 23, 820, 608 

 28, 477, 951 

 25, 134, 509 



10. 357, 488 

 1,812, 808 

 35. 925.511 

 35. 192, 074 

 47,681,700 













This table includes only the stock of farms, exclusive of ranches. 

 Were animals or ranches included, the cattle and sheep of 1880 would 

 be largely increased, and those of 1870 slightly. At the other dates, 

 the ranch interest was scarcely appreciable. 



PROGRESS OF WHEAT PRODUCTION IN THIRTY YEARS. 



Diagram VIII compares wheat production in the ten States of high- 

 est rank in wheat-growing at each decimal census, from 1850 to 1880, 

 and delineates conspicuously the extraordinary advance of Missouri, 

 Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and California. Two States in the 

 list for 1879 exceed in production the whole ten of the 1819 list, and 

 nearly equal entire crop of that year. The changes of this short period 

 are wonderful; three States of the first list fail to appear in the ten of 

 largest production in 1879. Pennsylvania, which was first in rauk iu 

 1849, was tenth (and last of the list) in 1879. Ten States in 1849 pro- 

 duced 8G per cent, of the crop; in 1859, ten produced 75 per cent.; in 

 1809, the list of ten represents 79 per cent., and that of 1879 three- 



