Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-13
STOCK ON HEFARM
DISTRIBUTION OF FARM ANIMALS IN
THE COUNTRY.

Texas Owns One-ffth of All the Beef
Valuation of Farm Stock of All Kinds.
New York Has Most Mich Cows.
About one-ffth (,167, 1853, out Of &c.
e49,024) of all the cattle other than
mich cows in the United States are
found in Texas. Iowa is second, with
2,677, 1871; Kansas third, with 1893, 422;
Illinois fourth, with 1,713, 966; Missouri
fifth, with 1,515, 935; New Mexico sixth,
with 1883 ,257; Nebraska seventh, with
1906, 1872; Wyoming eighth, with 1,217,-
800; Colorado ninth, with 1,O49, 1888; all
other states and territories being below a
million each. Omitting any one of the
last four named, the other eight contain
more stock of this class than all the rest
of the country put together.
While Texas contains one-ffth in num-
Der, though, it has only about one-ninth
in value, Texas cattle being rated at
only 1888, Arkansas alone being lower,
at 1894. Iowa, with a. little more than
one-fourteenth Of the total of stock, has
nearly one-eleventh in value. Outside
Of Texas, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri,
Iowa has more than twice as great
value in cattle as any state or territory
in the Union. Iowa is second in both
number and value Of mich COWS, too,
New York coming first, though Iowa
and Pennsylvania are almost tied on the
latter point.
In sheep Texas again comes first, with
1850, $40 head; California second, with
4,OS5,020; Ohio third, with 3,943, $3.50;
New Mexico, Oregon, Michigan, Utah,
Montana, Colorado, New York, Indiana,
Missouri and Wyoming each having wei
100000 head, following in the order
named. Iowa, which is second in cattle,
is twenty-ffth in sheep. In value of
sheep Ohio is first, California second.
Texas third, Michigan a pretty close
fourth, Oregon fifth and New York
sixth. The per capita valuation is lower
in Texas than in any other state in
which much Of a speciality is made Of
sheep, it being only ST. 2 per head.
In swine the first place, in both num-
beers and value, must be credited to
Iowa, with $500, 900 head, worth S.. "a
per head-$1.22 above the average Of the
country. Second is Illinois, with $780,
$50 head, worth $500 per head; Missouri
third, with $500, 900 head, worth only
1894. Then follow in order Indiana,
Kansas and Texas, though the latter
state is tenth in the matter of aggregate
value.
In horses Texas for the third time
reaches first place in numbers, having
1,S50,344 head; but is ninth in the mat
ter Of aggregate value. Illinois is second
In numbers but first in value, her 1,123,-
975 horses being worth $50, 301, o12. Iowa
is third in number and second in value,
having 1906, 300 horses, valued at $780,
626, 009. No other state has as many as
a million horses, and the two last named
have about one-sixth in value Of all the
horsefesh in the United States.
In mules Missouri barely holds first
place in numbers, with $50, 097, Tennes-
see following only e51 head behind. Mis-
sissippi comes first in aggregate value,
with over ST., 00O, 900, Tennessee being
second, Missouri third and Georgia a
close fourth.
And now what state leads in the ag-
gregate valuation of all kinds of farm
stock? The first place must be given to
Iowa, with a total Of $191, 592, 819, or a
little more than one-thirteenth of the
entire country's live stock valuation.
Illinois is second with $3.50, 013, 587.
Texas makes q showing of $147, All 1925.
st. Louis Journal of Agriculture.