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BULLETIN 1258> U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION. 
The greater part of the corn and clover and timothy produced in 
the area was marketed as livestock and livestock products. In 
addition to almost 5 head of work animals, the 100 farms averaged 
almost 4 cows, 7 sows, and 100 chickens. Something of the varia- 
tions in numbers of each on the different farms is shown in Table 17. 
Table 17. — Variations in number of work animals, cows, sows, ewes, and chickens 
per farm. 
Vumber of farms 
Number of animals 
per farm. 
"Work animals. 
Cows. 
Sows. 
Ewes. 
Chickens. 
1913 
1918 
1913 
1918 
1913 
1918 
1913 
1918 
1913 
1918 
2 
76 
20 
2 
1 
70 
28 
1 
2 
36 
42 
16 
3 
1 
3 
39 
38 
11 
8 
1 
95 
97 
11 
41 
32 
11 
4 
1 
1 
lto4 
57 
38 
4 
1 
54 
45 
1 
5to9 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
10to 14 
15 to 19 
23 to 24.. 
25 to 29 
18 
30 to 34 
1 
35 to 39.. 
40to 44 
45 to 49. 
50 to 99 
45 
100 to 149. 
22 
150 to 199.. 
10 
200 to 299. 
4 
300 and over 
1 
The total amount of productive livestock — that is, those other 
than work animals — is better expressed as productive animal units, 
which averaged 19.9 per farm for the first 4 years, 20.6 for the last 4 
years, and 20.3 for the 8 years. This was an average of 16 animal 
units for each 100 acres of land for the 8 years and for each of the 
4-year periods. 
If the farms were more heavily stocked one year than another, it 
was in 1914, when there were 16.9 productive animal units per 100 
acres, as against 16.3 the next higher years, 15.5 the lowest year, and 
an 8-year average of 16. Folio-wing a year of large corn production, 
with a comparatively large surplus carried over into the next year, a 
larger number of hogs were sold in 1914, in spite of a lower produc- 
tion of corn, than in any of the years except 1917 and 1918. 
The variation in amounts of productive livestock on the different 
farms is indicated in Table 18; and variation in the intensity of 
stocking of the different farms, expressed in number of productive 
animal units per 100 acres of land, in Table 19. 
