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Farm Animals in the United States. 



Considering the value of all these animals as a whole, it 

 appears therefore that the total value of farm animals in the 

 United States was estimated to have increased from 

 ^328,524.000 in 1880 to ^522,302,000 in 1889, and to have 

 suffered a diminution, as compared with the latter year, of 

 nearly £ 180,000,000 by 1897, when the total was again 

 reduced to ^344,878,000. In 1899, however, the value had 

 risen once more to ^416,044,000. 



