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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 24 
Live Stock and Dairy 
OUR GREAT LIVE STOCK INTERESTS: 
Some of us do not realize what a big 
country this is, and the magnitude of 
the various interests associated with 
agriculture. The live stock of the coun¬ 
try has an importance far greater than 
any of our other agricultural products. 
The recently published statistics of the 
census for 1900 are full of interest. 
The total live stock of the country is 
valued at $2,981,000,000, including 
Alaska. Iowa leads the States in hav¬ 
ing stock valued at $272,000,000, with 
Texas second at $236,000,000. The other 
gieat stock producing States in the rela¬ 
tive order of importance are Illinois, 
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, 
Ohio and Indiana, each possessing stock 
valued at over $100,000,000. Now think 
about this a bit, and imagine if you can 
how the value of this stock in these nine 
States might be increased by simply 
breeding more intelligently. Yesterday 
I was talking with a young man who 
had been a student of mine in live stock 
husbandry. A pair of horses went by 
that were a disgrace to the name horse. 
Said he: “I have never seen a place that 
has so many poor horses. The people 
have plenty of good buggies, but very 
few good horses.” And he was right. 
Texas has rapidly come to the front as 
a live stock State, and largely because 
the Texans have bought good blood ex¬ 
tensively in the North and used it to im¬ 
prove their native stock. The live stock 
valuation per head, in Texas, has gone 
through a remarkable change. Great 
improvement is easily possible in every 
State in the Union. 
The live stock interests are grouped 
into three classes: Cattle, horses, mules, 
asses and burros; and sheep, hogs and 
goats. Texas is by far the leading cat¬ 
tle State in numbers, having 9,500,000 
head, with Iowa second with about 5,- 
333,000. Alaska is listed with but 18 
head all told. In horses, Iowa and Illi¬ 
nois run neck-and-neck, each having 1,- 
300,000 with the advantage being slight¬ 
ly with the former. Texas is the banner 
mule State, with half a million; Missouri 
second with less than 300,000, and Ten¬ 
nessee third. 
Our sheep interests have gradually 
moved into the Far West. A few years 
ago Ohio was the great, sheep State of 
America. Now she is fourth with 4,- 
000,000 head, while Montana leads with 
6,000,000; Wyoming second with 5,000,- 
000, and New Mexico third.with almost 
the same number. 
In swine production Iowa again leads, 
having 9,750,000; Illinois second with 
almost 6,000,000; Missouri and Nebraska 
follow with 4,000,000 each, and then 
Indiana, Kansas and Ohio are in a class 
by themselves with 3,000,000 each. 
Figures are often bewildering and do 
not give one a fair conception of then- 
real importance. Perhaps this may be 
illustrated by referring to the cattle sta¬ 
tistics. In round numbers we had 68,- 
000,000 head of cattle. If we were to 
allow eight feet per head for these ani¬ 
mals to occupy, end to end, and they 
were placed in a line, we should find 
that they would extend around the 
earth four times, with still some to 
spare. If we were to ship 20 in a car, it 
would require 3,400,000 freight cars to 
ship them in. Yes, the cattle business 
is a big thing. 
Goats do not amount to much, but the 
census showed nearly 2,000,000 in the 
country, with Texas again the leading 
producer, with over 600,000, and New 
Mexico second with about 225,000. 
The poultry census gives figures of re¬ 
markable proportions, considering that 
it is a business that but few people give 
much attention to. The combined value 
of the poultry raised and eggs produced 
in 1899 was $281,000,000. This exceeds 
the valuation for 1900 placed on either 
hogs, sheep, asses or mules. Illinois and 
Iowa run side by side on being the lead¬ 
ers, with the advantage slightly in favor 
of Illinois in 1899. Ohio is a good third 
on combined chickens and eggs, with 
Missouri fourth, Pennsylvania fifth and 
Indiana sixth. The 1899 poultry figures 
of these States look interesting: 
Value Poultry Value all Eggs 
Raised. Produced. 
Illinois .$11,307,599 $ 8,942,401 
Iowa . 9,491.819 10,016.707 
Ohio . 8.947,009 10.280,769 
Missouri . 9,525,252 8,315.371 
Pennsylvania ... 7.151,243 9,080,725 
Indiana . 8,172,993 7,441,944 
Texas is the leading turkey State, with 
648,000 on June 1, 1900, and Missouri 
second with 466,000. Kentucky leads in 
geese production, being credited with 
541,000, and Missouri second with 428,- 
000. Iowa leads the procession with 
ducks, listing 488,000, with Illinois sec¬ 
ond with 382,000. The Southern States 
ought to be great poultry producers. 
Georgia, for example, produced a total 
of but $4,000,000 worth of poultry and 
eggs in 1899, not producing half as much 
in value as Wisconsin, but a trifle more 
than Maryland, and not as much as lit¬ 
tle New Jersey. And yet Georgia is 
called the empire State of the South, 
and she has one of the finest climates in 
America for poultry culture. Our South¬ 
ern States should become the leading 
poultry producers, and where may be 
asked, can poultry be produced under 
more favorable conditions? It would be 
difficult to say where. c. s. plumb. 
MILK-MAKING IN ONEIDA COUNTY. 
The milk situation of this section is un- 
satisfactorv and unremunerative to the 
producers of Winter milk. The milk ship¬ 
ping stations paid for the early months 
2V 2 cents per quart, about $1.17 per 100 in 
the 32-cent zone. Cows were on full feed 
and it therefore costs as much to pro¬ 
duce milk as in January, when the price 
was one-half cent higher. None of our 
experiment stations has as yet been able 
to produce a quart of milk tor less than 
three cents, Secretary Coon, of the F. S. 
M. P. A. says 3!4 cents. If these prices are 
founded on facts, how long will it take a 
man to pay off the mortgage on his farm 
at 2% cents, or in other words, how long 
will it be before he will land in the poor 
house? Had the members of the F. S. M. 
P. A. been as faithful in 1899 as they were 
in 1898 in paying their annual dues and 
standing squarely and loyally by the offi¬ 
cers, they would have been able to main¬ 
tain a gradual advance in price. But when 
any organization fails to receive uae 
hearty, willing support of its members, the 
enemy soon discovers this weakness, and 
is ever ready to apply the remedy, which 
results in their financial gain and the pro¬ 
ducer’s loss. Farms are being deeded 
back to the mortgagee, afterwards being 
sold at from $300 to $3,000 less than the 
mortgage, depending on the size of the 
farm. A farm of 145 acres in Paris (N. Y.) 
recently sold for $4,000. It was capable of 
keeping 30 milch cows, with young stock 
to keep this number good. There were a 
good dwelling house convenient for two 
families; a barn 40 x 100 feet with 20-foot 
posts and basement, with three good silos, 
and water in the barn. This farm, with 
stock and tools, was once valued at $15,000. 
This was no forced sale or mortgage fore¬ 
closure. What is wrong, not only in this 
case, but in many others? The cost of 
production exceeds the income. The price 
of feed the past Winter made it impossi¬ 
ble to produce milk at a profit even at the 
January price of three cents. A few lar- 
mers stopped feeding grain of any kind, 
as the increased quantity did not pay the 
feed bills. It is that which sticks to a 
man, that makes it possible to increase his 
bank account, not what passes through his 
hands.. There are several creameries in 
this section, though it is in the heart of a 
milk-shipping district. These creameries 
are owned by individuals who make the 
butter for the farmers at three cents per 
pound, the proprietors marketing the but¬ 
ter at this price. Farmers simply furnish 
the milk. A majority of the patrons have 
customers. All such receive a price which 
more than covers cost of making. Each 
farmer gets credit for his milk according 
to the Babcock test. One creamery of the 
above number located at Paris is making 
over 11,000 pounds weekly, and is far be¬ 
hind in its orders. This creamery pays 
the price of the shipping stations. Those 
who dispose of their milk in this way have 
to pay 10 cents per can for skim-milk. At 
this price it is a cheap food for pigs and 
calves. The milk supply for the season 
will not be as great as in the past, though 
as many cows as usual are kept. 
J. E. H. 
Angora Goats.— We are looking for 
another flock of Angora goats. We sold 
ours last fall. Jack said, “We will knock 
them in the head before we will keep them 
over—feed is so high and they eat so 
much.” This sounds really ungrateful, and 
I see a look of reproach from these beauti¬ 
ful, soft-eyed Angoras, the knights of the 
silver fleece. What hustlers they are! In 
two years they transformed 100 acres of 
our woodland with impenetrable under¬ 
brush as high as your head into good 
pasture land; for remember, that in Iowa 
the Blue grass creeps in wherever the 
sun’s rays fall. We had men to cut the 
trees, the goats did the rest. There is 
another thicket to clear and we want 
another flock. a. h. m. 
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