Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1904-12-15
NEW JERSEY AND
IT'S HORSE MARKET.

Washington, Dec. 9.-Tiie twentieth
annual report OF the bureau OF animal
industry is out. Among the valuable
information and statistics from the
several states is considerable statistical
information regarding the animal in
dustry in New Jersey.
New Jersey has 95, $50 head of
horses, valued at SO, 454, 8S2. The
average price of these animals per
head is 500. 49, This is higher.aver-
age price than in any other state.
Rhode Island ranks second to New
Jersey in the value of horses per head,
the price here being $95. The average
value OF horses per head in New York
state is 1913. It will undoubtedly
surprise many people to know that
horses in New Jersey are more valu-
able than in any other state. Colorado
has the lowest priced horses, the value
in that state being considerably less
than half that in New Jersey, namely,
$41.e2
New Jersey has 5,024 head of mules,
valued at $499, Alb. The value OF
mules per head in New Jersey is
$9S.21. New Jersey ranks second in
the value of mules per head, Georgia
being first with an average value Of
$104.02 and South Carolina ranks
second with an average value of 800. SO.
New Jersey has 179, 241 head of milch
COWS, valued at $6, 997, $50, an average
value OF 80. 04 per head. The average
price of milch cows in New Jersey
ranks very high when compared with
many other states.
The value Of these ANIMALS in Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecti-l
cults about the same as in New Jer-
| sey. In New York state milch COWS
are worth SO. 55 less per head than in
New Jersey. There are 5000 head
of other cattle in New Jersey, valued
at 81, ,66S, 489, an average value of
800. 33. There are A, 685 sheep in
New Jersey, valued at $182, 439, an
average price of $4.0S per head. There
are 10, $50 head of hogs in New Jersey,
valued at 81, ,74S. 683, an average price
of $l1.35 per head.
Two thousand one hundred and
ninety head OF horses were lost from
exposure and disease in New Jersey
last year up to March 81, 1904. The
number of other ANNALS lost from ex-
posure and disease in the state during
the same period is as follows: Cattle,
1866; sheep, 1,l62; hogs, 4.930. The
percentage of animals lost in New
Jersey from all causes is considerably
smaller than in most of the states, al
though New Jersey shows a slightly
| larger percentage of loss in horses than
New York state, the percentage in
New Jersey being "a per cent. and in
New York state 1.S per cent The
New England States, however, make
| the most favorable showing in the
small percentage of animals lost from
disease and exposure. The Southern
] States and some of the Far Western
Territories show the most frightful
| losses.
| In the whole United States the horse
population is l6, 1885, 059, which means
that there is about one horse to every
five persons, or one for each family in
the nation. The value of these horses
in the entire country is 81, 1856, $40, 298.
The number of milch COWS in the
United States exceeds the number OF
horses by less than one million head,
the number OF COWS being II, 4l9, 817,
valued at sos, 841, ,489, an average
price of $29.21 per head. There are
2,757, ,916 mules. 43, 629, 498 cattle other
than cows, l.650,314 sheep and AZ,
0O9, 367 head Of hogs in the United
States.
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