Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-25
CENSUS OF LIVESTOCK SHOWS
ONE REASON FOR HIGHER
MEAT PRICES.
ONLY INCREASE REVEALED :
is IN NUMBER OF CATTLE
Population Of Country Shows Greater
Percentage of Increase in Population
and Therefore Increased Consumption
Interesting Statistics Announced by
Census Bureau.

Washington. March 25.-An increase
of IL, 00O, 900 in population in the United
States during the past ten years and
| decrease of about 100000 in the
| number of available food animals is
the estimate made by the bureau Of
statistics from reports on these two
subjects made respectively by the CEN
sus bureau and the department of ag-
riculture. Another lesson in the law
of supply and demand deduced by the
bureau statistics is that food animals
have gone down per cent, while the
value has increased % per cent. In the
| meantime the price of grains neces-
sary for food for these animals has in
creased from Sc to 20 per cent.
The value of cattle, sheep and hogs
in this country in 1901 was estimated
81 ,943,000 in 1910, at $2,36S,00O. This
is an. increase of % per cent
Cattle are the one class of food ami
| mails which have come anywhere keep
ing pace with the growth in population
Cattle have increased in number II per
cent, while the population increased 16
per cent. There are about 2.3 animals
to each person in the country in 1901;
| in 1910 about 10. A pound of lard in
1901 was worth IA cents; in 1910 it is
worth Is cents, an increase of 143 per
cent. This may be accounted for in
part at least by the fact that there has
been a decrease of 16 per cent in the
number of hogs in the United States.
Washington, March 25-The number
of food animals in the United States
has decreased 100000 since 1901. and
the number of consumers has increased
II, COO, 900 in the same time.
This is the result of an analysis by
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of commerce and labor, Of CEN
sus estimates of population and the de-
partment of agricultures estimates of
food animals in the years 1901 and
1910.
The term food animals" includes in
this instance all cattle, sheep and swine
in the United States as estimated by
the departmental agriculture, and the
term Consumers" includes all Of the
population as estimated by the census.
The department of agriculture's fig
ures put the total number Of cattle In
the United States on January /, 1901
at 1888, 900; sheep, $4,000. and
swine, 57,000,000, a total of ITO. 900.
For Jan. 1, 1910, the estimate is cattle.
69, 600, 900; sheet, 57,250.000, and swine,
47,75O,OOO, a total of 174,000,000, a de-
crease of 100000 in the aggregate of
the three groups Of food animals. The
census estimates the population of the
United States on June /, 1901 at IT,
$4,000 and on June /, 1910, at ,S9.912,-
900, an increase of a little more than
II, 00O coo in the populati Whine the
number of food animals was declining
about 5000, 900. This makes the total
number of food animals to each 100
Npersons in 1901. 231: and in 1910. but
1913, decrease of 16 per cent in the
number, of food animals to each 100
persons residing in the United States.
Numbers Less, Values Greater.
In the meantime the total value OF
the food animals in the country has
increased despite the reduction in num-
Der, the department Of agriculture esti-
mating the aggregate farm value of the
179 100000 cattle, sheep and swine in
1901, at 81 943,OO0,000. and the ag-
gregate farm value of the 174,ooo,oQo
in 1910 at 50, 900 900. This gives an
increase in the aggregate value of %
per cent, while the number was declin-
ing a little less than 3 per cent the
average farm value per animal of the
entire number of food animals being
25h per cent.
More Cattle Than in 1901.
The Zone class of food animals which
shows an actual increase in the period
in question is cattle, of which the
number in 1901 was 62,333S70, and in
1910. 69,0S0,OO0, an increase of about
II per cent while the population was
increasing about 16 per cent The farm
value of cattle in 1901 is put at l.