6 Bulletin 827, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
STATUS OF THE BEEF-CATTLE INDUSTRY. 
NUMBER AND VALUE OF CATTLE, 
Table 1 shows the number of cattle other than milk cows for 
1910, and for the last 4 years in the 6 States included in this report. 
Table 1. — Number and value of cattle other than mill: cows in States with large 
areas of Pineij Woods. 1 
State. 
Number Jan. 1 — 
Census , 
Apr. 15, 
1910. 
Value per 
head Jan. 
1, 1920. 
1920 
1919 
1918 
1917 
771,000 
945, 000 
842, 000 
716, 000 
725, 000 
• 691,000 
763, 000 
936, 000 
851,000 
708, 000 
690, 000 
678, 000 
727, 000 
891,000 
760, 000 
644, 000 
600. 000 
640, 000 
686, 000 
865, 000 
534. 000 
575, 000 
525, 000 
560, 000 
666, 000 
611,000 
534, 0C0 
580, 000 
510, 000 
599, 000 
S27. 20 
27.30 
22.90 
Mississippi 
23.50 
29.30 
Arkansas , 
24.40 
Total 
4,690,000 
4,626,000 
4,262,000 
3,745,000 
3,500,000 
2 25. 77 
1 Figures for 1910 are taken from the Census report; other figures from Bureau of Crop Estimates, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 
2 Average. 
This table presents some interesting points relative to the size 
and growth of the cattle industry and the values of cattle. The 
figures given are for the entire States, but the points brought out 
by the table are pertinent as applied to the Piney Woods sections. 
It will be noticed that the increase in the number of cattle during 
the last three years has been rapid as compared with the total 
increase from 1910 to 1916. The year 1910 marked the beginning of 
greater interest in the beef-cattle industry. About this time the 
menace of the boll weevil to the one-crop system of cotton farming 
turned attention to live stock. The growth from that time has been 
steady. The growth has been more rapid in the last four years 
because more area has been freed from ticks, and higher prices have 
been paid for cattle. 
Although the cattle industry is growing rapidly, the number of 
cattle is proportionately far below that of other cattle-producing 
States and is only a fraction of the possibilities. 
On January 1, 1920, the number of cattle in the States named was 
about one-ninth the total number for the United States, but their 
value was only one-sixteenth of the total value. The average value of 
cattle per head for the six States at that time was $25.77, while the 
average value per head for the six leading cattle States, viz, Texas, 
Xebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Minnesota, was $44.27. The 
difference in price indicates the difference in size and quality. 
The fact that the Piney Woods region produces cattle of such 
relatively small value is due to a number of factors, the chief ones 
