St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-06-18
GREAT MULE STATE
Texas Has Gradually Forced
Missouri Into Second Place.
Total Value Of Animals In Lone Star
Territory Placed at $69,4e8,ooo-
More Than Half of Worlds
Stock In United States,
(By MAX BAUM.l

(By MAX BAUMD
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 bad second place. OF the 1900.
600 mules in the world almost one
tenth are in Texas, the Lone Star
state having 100000, valued at 500
each. The total value of the states
mules was s69,49S, 900.
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
Iexas brother, $40 more. The $4,000
mules in Missouri are valued at s119
each. or s40,936.O0O for all of them.
Georgia, which has $38, 936, 900 worth
OF mules, is third on the list, Tennes-
see is fourth, with $35,e7O,OOO; Missis-
sippi is fifth. with $32,77O,O00; Ala
bama Is sixth, with $3O.s66.000 worth;
North Carolina Is seventh, with $24,-
$4,000, but is closely pressed by Ken
lucky, which has mules valued at $24,-
4zo,oOO. Arkansas Is ninth, with $685.
$4,000; South Carolina is tenth, with
b22,752,OoO, and Louisiana is eleventh,
with s20.e4S.O00.
Then the mule belt jumps over into
Oklahoma, which new state has $780,
O55,OOO worth of the animals Another
skip is then taken to Illinois, which
is thirteenth, with a total of $4,000
mules, worth $19,912,0OO, or $131 each.
Kansas, fourteenth on the list, is the
only other state which passes the $751;
100000 mark. The Sunfower state
has $4,000 mules, 1000 more than Illi-
nois, but they are valued at only $116
each, giving total value of $17,854.-
GOO.
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 11,844,000 California, whose
rank in the general table is seven
teenth, holds sixteenth place Il the
mule list, with $10,126,OOO worth Ne
braska, the sixth live stock state, is
the seventeenth mule state, with
$S,56S,000. Pennsylvania drops from
twelfth place in the general list to
eighteenth in mules, with $6,235,00
Iowa tops the list of live stock
states, but it falls to nineteenth posi-
ton in mules, with total of only
$5,781, 000-a small item in it's $685.
$4,000 worth of live stock. Ohio holds
the seventh place in the general live
stock ranking, but drops to twentieth
In mules, with total of but $2,750, 900.
New York has 1S9,716,Q00 worth of
live stock, occupying the ninth place
in the list, but the Empire state has
only $575,000 worth of mules, and is
the twenty-f1fth mule state
There are 4,123,000 mules in the
United States-more than half the
worlds stock-of the average value of
$119,S4, and with total value of $494,-
095,000 There are 10000 more than
last year, and they are worth s12 more
each. Mules cost most in South Caro-
lima, where they are valued at $157 |
each; and least in Nevada and New
Mexico, where they are worth only |
$40.