The Tupelo journal., 1910-06-03
GREAT MULE STATE
Texas Has Gradually Forced
Missouri Into Second Place.
Total Value OF Animals In Lone Star
Territory Placed at $69,4ss,ooo-
More Than Halt Of Worlds
Stock Ia United States.
(By MAX BAUM.)

(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 $780,
600 mules in the world almost me-
tenth are in Texas. the Lone Star
state having 702, 900, valued at $99
each. The total value of the states
mules was $69,49S, 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
Texas brother. $40 more. The $4,000
mules In Missouri are valued at $119
each, or $40,936,0O0 for all of them.
Georgia, which has $38, $4,000 worth
of mules, is third on the list. Tennes-
see is fourth. with $35,670 900; Missis-
sippi is fifth, with $32.770.000; Ala
bama is sixth, with $~30,S66.000 worth;
North Carolina is seventh, with $24,-
1916 00, but is closely pressed by Ken
lucky. which has mules valued at $24.-
426, 600. Arkansas is ninth, with $685.
435,0 900; South Carolina is tenth, with
$22, 1852, 900, and Louisiana is eleventh,
with SO. GAS, 600.
Then the mule belt jumps over into
Oklahoma, which new state has $780,
055, 900 worth of the animals. Another
skip is then taken to Illinois, which
is thirteenth, with a total Of 152, 600
mules, worth &c., 81, 900. or $131 each.
Kansas, fourteenth on the list, Is the
only other state which passes the $751;
000,0 900 mark. The Sunf1ower state
has 1884, 900 mules, 1000 more than ILL
nois, but they are valued at only $116
each, giving a total value of $17,854,-
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 IN the mule
list, with $11, S44. 900. California. whose
rank in the general table is seven
teenth, holds sixteenth place Il the
mule list, with $40, 126. 1000 worth. Ne
braska, the sixth live stock state, is
the seventeenth mule state, with
$S,56S, 900. Pennsylvania drops from
twelfth place in the general list to
eighteenth in mules, with ~$6,235,OOO.
Iowa tops the list Of live stock
states, but 1t falls to nineteenth posi-
ton in mules, with a total of only
$5,7S1 ,000-a small item in its $780,
$4,000 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 $2,750,OOO.
New York has $189, ZIG. 900 worth OF
live stock, occupying the ninth place
in the list, but the Empire state has
only $685. 900 worth of mules. and is
the twenty-fifth mule state.
There are 4,123.000 mules in the
United States-more than half the
worlds stock-of the average value of
$119,84, and with a total value of $494,-
O95, 900. There are 10000 more than
last year, and they r worth $12 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.