Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-06-03
GREAT MULE A
Texas Has Gradually Forced
Missouri Into Second Place.
Total VaIue Of Animals In Lone Star
Territory Placed at $69,4ea, 900
More Than Half Of Worlds
Stock in United States.
tRy MAX BAUMO

by MAX BAUM.)
Time was when Missouri claimed
TO have more mules than any other
state or country in the world. But
Missouri has been forced by Texas
into a bad second place. OF the 7,5OO,-
900 mules in the world almost one
tenth are in Texas, the Lone Star
state having 7O2, 600, valued at 500
each. The total value of the states
mules was $69, 498,O0
Apparently the mule IS specially
adapted to the southern climate, for
most of the four-footed kickers are to
be found south of the Ohio river. The
Missouri mule is worth more than his
Texas brother, $40 more. The $4,000
mules in Missouri are valued at $1l9
each, or $40, 1896, 900 for all of them.
Georgia, which has $38, 936, 700 worth
of mules, is third on the list. Tennes
see is fourth, with s35,67O, 900; Missis-
sippi is fifth, with $32, no, 1000; Ala
bama is sixth, with $30,866. 900 worth;
North Carolina is seventh, with $24,-
797, 900, but is closely pressed by Ken
lucky, which has mules valued at $24,-
100000. Arkansas is ninth, with $685.
ABS, 900; South Carolina is tenth, with
$22, 1852, 600, and Louisiana is eleventh,
with $40, 648, 900.
Then the mule belt jumps over into
Oklahoma, which new state has $780,
O55, 900 worth of the animals. Another
skip is then taken to Illinois, which
is thirteenth, with a total of 1872 900
mules, worth $19,912,000, or $131 each.
Kansas, fourteenth on the list, is the
only other state which passes the $751;
OOO, 900 mark. The Sunfower state
has 1874 600 mules. 1000 more than Illi-
nois, but they are valued at only SIG
each, giving a total value OF $780,
900.
The mule crop in the leading live
stock states is rather small with the
exception Of Texas, Missouri, Tennes-
see, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Illinois and
Kansas.
Indiana, which is the eighth live
stock state, is fifteenth on the mule
list, with 81 ,844, 900. California, whose
rank in the general table is seven
teenth, holds sixteenth place in he
mule list, with SIC, IL 600 worth. Ne
braska, the sixth live stock state, is
the seventeenth mule state, with
$S,568, 900. Pennsylvania drops from
twelfth place in the general list to
eighteenth in mules, with $685. 600.
Iowa tops the list of live stock
states, but it falls to nineteenth posi-
ton in mules, with a total Of only
$5,781, OO0-a small item in its $780,
3S1, 900 worth of live stock Ohio holds
the seventh place in the general live
stock ranking, but drops to twentieth
in mules, with a total of but 81. $50, 600.
New York has $1S9, 10000 worth of
live stock, occupying the ninth place
in the list, but the Empire state has
only $4,000 worth of mules, and is
the twenty-ifth mule state.
There are 4,123,OOO mules in the
United States-more than half the
worlds stock-of the average value of
$119,S4, n with a total value of $494,-
O95, 900. There are 10000 more than
last year, and they are worth $12 more
each. Mules cost most in South Caro-
lima, where they are valued at 1857
each; and least in Nevada and New
Mexico, where they are worth only
$40.