HORSES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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HORSES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
The Department of Agriculture lias issued a bulletin show- 
the number of horses in the United States. The three 
leading horse-producing States are given in the following table : 
Illinois. Texas. 
1,078,000 963,900 
1,067,220 1,002,456 
1,012,851 338,343 
1,017,915 880,260 
1,028,094 889,063 
i *°38,375 933,516 
1,048,759 998,862 
1,059*247 1,038,816 
1,069,839 1,225,803 
1,091,236 1,323,867 
I > 12 3,973 i,35o,344 
T.123,973 1,512,385 
1 *337,528 1,209,908 
* , 377,654 1,246,246 
1,308,771 1,183,895 
1,295.683 1,195,734 
1,179,072 1,183,777 
The department groups the States into five divisions. Under 
each division is shown the number of horses in that division in 
1880, and for every year down to 1896. In 1880 the United 
States had 11,201,800. January 1, 1896, the number was 15,- 
I2 4 >° 57 * The highest figure was reached in 1893, being 16,- 
206,802. By reference to the table it will be observed that the 
three States named had four million horses, nearly one-fourth 
of the entire number in the United States at that time. 
The gain in the United States from 1880 to 1896, a term of 
sixteen years, was 5,005,002. The decrease from 1893 t0 1896, 
a term of three years, was 1,082,746. This is a decrease in the 
United States of over one-quarter of a million per year for the 
past three years. The total decrease in the whole United States 
during 1895 was 779,261, over three-quarters of a million. 
None of the other States, besides Iowa, Illinois and Texas, 
have ever reached one million, except Kansas in 1893 and Mis¬ 
souri in 1894, both of these dropping back over one hundred thou¬ 
sand the next succeeding years. Ohio has between seven and 
eight hundred thousand, Indiana the same number. Michigan 
and Wisconsin rank next. Hast of Ohio the numbers do not 
vary much in any of the States, which shows that the surplus 
horses are practically all raised in the West. A few Southern 
States have made slight gains, but the increase is accounted for 
upon the grounds of recent agricultural developments in these 
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