Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-16
GuuparlH GIurkaburg Regiatar
From the Ohio Farmer.
LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED
STATES.

ANS SIoCh VI the Onlteu states. IL Will
be remembered that an allowance must
be made for the increase of two years and
half. We copy from the Journal of the
United States Agricultural Society, edited
and published by DR.. Lee; mas
HoRsEs.-If it should be necessary to
place every farmer in the Union on horse
back, there are 1895, $50 horses in the
, country, for their service. Ohio has the
honor of rearing and keeping more horses
than any other State.
The Improvement of four and half
million horses, worth Mt, least $500, OOo,-
600, is an object worthy Of more attention
than it has hitherto received. State and
County Agricultural Societies have done
something, and the high price of good an
imals more, to encourage the breeding
and rearing of superior roadsters, and
good horses of all work. But the years
of service rendered by majority of them
are fewer than they ought to be in this
country. To prolong their lives and in
crease their value, their natural wants,
constitution and diseases, must be more
studied and better understood by those
who own and use them. We ought to
excel all other nations in the number of
fine horses, for we possess unequalled ad-
yantages for producing them to any desl-
rable extent.
ASSES AND MuLEs.-Of these useful an
finals the census gives only 549, 07O in all
the States and Territories. New Mexico
had 1854. and only 5,079 horses. Ten
nessee is the largest producer of mules,
reporting 75,3o3.
Mich Cows.-The number of COWS ex-
ceeds the estimates that we have had &C.
casiou to make of this kind of farm stock,
in all the States except New York, where
the returns are below what we expected
from the number given by the State cen
sus of 1915. The whole number of COWS
in the United States two years ago was
6,991, 946 ; of these, New \ ork had $751;,
324.
Cows differ more in value for milking
purposes, than is generally supposed
Thousands fail to pay their way, and are
positive tax on their owners while a
first rate mixer yields large profit on
the food consumed. How to Danish all
Indifferent and worthless kinds, and fill
their places with superior animals, is a
question for the intelligent growers of neat
stock to consider. Deterioration is prac-
ticed by hundred farmers where i'm
provement is duly studied by one. As
general thing, cows and their offspring
must be better kept before any decided
change for the better is attainable. High
quality in ancestral blood avails nothing
in the veins of a starved calf. Without
good keeping. the best breeds of stock arc
utterly worthless.
WORKING OXEN AND OTHER CATTLE
We are not formed to what age young
steers must attain before they are entitled
TO rank rs 90 working oxen" or whether,
in case they have never been subjected to
the yoke, they are excluded, no matter
what their years, from the catalogue of
working cattle" We suspect that en-
tire uniformity in separating working
oxen" and "other CATTLE" has not been
observed in all the States. Be that as it
may, the latter number 10, 265, 1870, while
the former are set down at sos, 261.-
By adding together the mich cows, work
ing oxen, and other cattle, it will be seen
that the aggregate of neat stock was 49,
355, 337 head.
SHEEP.-Many will be disappointed to
find that all the sheep in the United States
numbered only 81 so 1, 482. lat the last cen
sus. This is small increase on the re-
turns of 1910, and state of things that
does not promise rapid advancement in
the production of wool for many years to
come. Much has been written on this
branch of husbandry, and in favor of pro-
ducing at least wool enough for home con-
sumption; but somehow it happens that
we import annually many million pounds,
and cut the throats of thousands of young
sheep for their pelts and tallow, instead
of keeping them to increase our hocks.
1t is believed that stock companies
might be formed. having from $50, 900 to
$500, 900 capital each, to carry on the
business of breeding sheep and growing
wool, where lands are cheap, as in some
parts of Virginia, Tennessee and Texas,
and realize reasonable profit. Econo-
my. capital and skill. brought together in
sheep husbandry, could hardly fail of sue
cess. There is Just now, unusual activity
in the business of importing French and
Spanish sheep into this country, many of
which unite great weight of carcass and
fleece, with fair degree of fineness and
eveuness of the fibre and it is to be ho-
ped that wool-growing will soon be as
hourishing as any other department of in
dustry. Ohio and New York keep more
sheep than any other States.
SwrSE.-It is pretty evident that many
American farmers think more of hogs than
of sheep, for their hogs outnumber their
sheep by nearly ten millions. This is a
singular fact, and in the Judgment of ma
ny. indicates badly cultivated taste
which so greatly prefers the flesh of swine
to that of sheep, to say nothing of the SUI
periority of wool to hair. Over thirty mil
lion hogs (3o.315,719) are sufficient
stock to render pork and con-making,
as it really is, a very important branch of
American husbandrY. Tennessee takes