10 BULLETIN 997, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
WORKSTOCK. 
The total number of workstock of different kinds, their weight, 
and their value on the farms in different areas at the time of the 
investigation are given in Table 5. 
Table 5. — Number of workstock, their weight and value, in different areas. 
Area. 
Num- 
ber 
of 
farms 
Mares. 
Num- 
ber. 
Aver- 
age 
weight. 
Aver- 
val- 
ue. 
Geldings. 
Num- 
ber. 
Aver- 
age 
weight. 
Aver- 
age 
val- 
ue. 
Mules. 
Num- 
ber. 
Aver- 
Aver- 
val- 
ue. 
Madison County, Ohio. . . 
Seneca County, Ohio 
Madison County, Ind 
Montgomery County, Ind 
Livingston County, 111..., 
Knox County, 111 
All 
168 
103 
136 
162 
293 
222 
Lbs. 
1,409 
1,448 
1,405 
1,338 
1,367 
1,320 
Dolls 
156 
148 
134 
128 
151 
123 
75 
56 
69 
111 
172 
165 
Lbs. 
1,394 
1,446 
1,355 
1,344 
1,331 
1,298 
Dolls. 
150 
142 
125 
131 
126 
119 
34 
Lbs. 
1,143 
1,075 
1,050 
1,075 
1,189 
1,130 
Dolls. 
161 
212 
120 
186 
159 
204 
286 
1,084 
1,372 
140 
648 
1,350 
129 
146 
1,125 
180 
The larger number of mares than geldings in each area indicates 
that when disposing of surplus workstock these farmers have usually 
sold geldings in preference to mares. Mules were found on 56 of 
the 286 farms, and on most of these 56 there was but one span, 
the average number per farm where mules were used being 2.6. 
The number of colts in comparison to the number of workstock on 
these farms is shown in Table 6. The number of " other" colts in- 
cludes all young stock which had not been broken to harness. Most 
of them were foaled in 1919 and 1918, but some young horses and 
mules foaled in 1917 had never been worked. For all farms there 
was only one 1920 colt for each 16.9 head of workstock, and on more 
than three-fourths of the farms there were no 1«920 colts. Only 10 
per cent of the mares on these farms raised colts during the year of 
the investigation. 
Table 6. — Number of workstock and number of colts in different areas. 
Area. 
Number 
of farms. 
Number 
of work- 
stock. 
Number of 1920 
colts. 
Number of 
other colts. 
Madison County, Ohio 
Seneca County, Ohio 
Madison County, Indiana 
Montgomery County, Indiana 
Livingston County, Illinois. . . 
Knox County, Illinois 
All 
262 
165 
209 
320 
501 
421 
21 (11 farms) .. 
8 (6 farms) 
19 (12 farms).. 
11 (8 farms).. 
27 (15 farms).. 
25 (14 farms).. 
127 (24 farms). 
30 (16 farms). 
68 (16 farms). 
40 (17 farms). 
83 (30 farms). 
63 (20 farms). 
286 
1,878 
111 (66 farms) . 
411 (123 farms). 
