The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-26
Ranks Eighth in Number and
Value of Dairy Cattle, Ac-
cording to L.G.Powers
NINTH IN HORSE WEALTH
Domestic Animals in the State VAL
ued at Eighty-six end One
Half Million
Dollars.

According to the advance sheets of the
| census department just received by Dairy
1 Commissioner Mcconnell from L. G.
| Powers, Of Minnesota, who is the chief
statistician for agriculture, there were
| 222, 69S, 0S5 domestic animals in the United
| States June 1, 1860, on 5,499,9SS farms. the
| total value being 81, 961, 722, 945, of which
| Minnesota had 1904 on las, 261 farms,
valued at $50, $40 643
| According to the report there were then
| in Minnesota -154, $50 farms-in Minnesota.
| Twenty-one other states had a greater
1 number of farms than this.
Eleven states are credited with having
| greater wealth in domestic animals than
| Minnesota Iowa. which ranks first hav-
| ing three and one-half times as much as
| Minnesota. Minnesota ranks eighth in the
| number and value of dairy cows, having
| 1852 valued at 81, SIS, 1897. New York
ranks first with exactly twice as many
| dairy cows as Minnesota, and Iowa is
| second. Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Wiscon-
| sin, Pennsylvania are also ahead of Min
| nesota in the number and value of dairy
| cows.
| Minnesota ranks ninth in the number
| and value of horses. There were in 1900,
| 696, 459 horses in this state valued at $42,-
| 255, 044. Iowa, Illinois and Texas lead in
| horses all three having twice the number
| that Minnesota has. Indiana Ohio, Kan
are also ahead of Minnesota
Falls Down ON Mules.
Minnesota does not stack up very
ued at $486 $50. There are twenty-six
states far ahead of Minnesota in this
respect
Minnesota reports 5Sg,S7S sheep, valued
at $1,74OO-o, which gives the state twenty
sixth place. Montana has eleven and
Wyoming nine times more sheep than
Minnesota. q
Only twelve states lead Minnesota in
number and value of swine. Minnesota
has 1,440,S06, worth 1866, 500. Iowa leads
with nearly 100000 swine, and Illinois,
Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin and
Tennessee are ahead of Minnesota.
The value of animals slaughtered on
farms in Minnesota was 4s08, 05l. Eighteen
states showed better and larger figures
on this count than did Minnesota,
Minnesota received s16046,622 from the
sale of live stock in 1885, which gave the
state twelfth place in this respect.
The average value of domestic animals
in Minnesota in 1900 was: Dairy cows
$2S.55, in which the state ranked thirty
eighth; all cattle, $19.37; horses, $6O67
rank seventeenth; sheep, $3.50, rank
twentieth; swine, s407, rank twenty
eighth; mules, $5S &c.
The total number of domestic animals
on hand in the United States June /, 1900,
was: Cattle, SO, 43S, 75S; dairy cows, IT,
1854; horses, 21,216,8SS; sheep, 61,S37, 112;
swine, 64,694, 222; mules, S,445.029; goats, l.
$40, COS; asses and burros, III, $50.
iowa in the Lead.
Iowa leads the states in the total value
of domestic animals, while Texas ranks
second. On June l. 1900, the former had
$271 ,S44094 invested, and the latter 1896,
227,9S4. Texas ranks first in the number
and total value of neat cattle, but the
larger number and higher average values
of other animals, especially swine, gives
Iowa a. greater total investment In all
domestic animals.
The Western states are evidently doing
more than any other section of the coun-
try to improve the grade of cattle kept
This is shown not only by the high values
of dairy cows, but more especially by the
average price of bulls.
On June /, 1900, the average value of
horses in the United States was $4907
The highest average. $3.50, was reported
by the North Atlantic division of states,
and the lowest, $29.01, by the Western di-
vIStCn.