The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-11
VALUE OF DOMESTIC
ANIMALS s43,10O,0DD
INTERESTING STATISTICS ON
WEST VIRGINIA FARMs-lN.
CREASE IN VALUE IN TEN
Y YEARS HAS BEEN GREAT, Ac.
coRDlNG TO CENSUS STATE.
MENT. ''

WASHINGTON, b. c., July 11.1sta.
tlstics relative to the domestic anil
ttnals, poultry and bees reported Oil
farms and ranges for the State Of
West Virginia at the thirteenth decen;
NAL census April Is, 1910. are CON
tained In an official statement issued
today BY Acting Census Director
Falkner 1t is based on tabular sum.
riarles prepared under the direction
OF DR.. lie Grand Peers, chief statistl.
clan for agriculture In the bureau Of
the census. The figures are prelim-
mary Hand subject to slight revision
later, 'whCil a few other farms, whose
returns are now incomplete, are in.
cIuded in the final tables. 1t is not
expected that these. additions will ma
terlally modify the amounts Of rates
stated herein. Special attention is
called to the fact that the present
statement relate only to live stock on
farms and ranges and does not give
the figures for the cities and towns
OF the State.
An Aggregate Increase Of, $12,52e, 900.
The aggregate value OF all domestic
animals, poultry and bees In 1910 was
reported as $43, 100000, as compared
with $2O,571, 900 in 1900, the amount
of increase being $12,529,OOO, and the
rate Al per cent.
The total value of the. domestic AMI
mails was reported at. $41, 0SS908 In
1910, ms against $20, $4,000 in 1900
tho increase amounting 10 $11,S51, 900,
or 4t.5 per cent.
TbeaToUltry!were valued at $1,629,.
900 In 1910, as compared with 1884,
400 in 1907 the gain being $665,O00, or
SO per cent.
fInc bees we're valued at $3SS,9OO mi
1912, and SST5.6O0 in 1900, the In.
crease amounting to $15,SOO, or S.5
per cent.
Number, Ages and Average Values Of
Domestic Animals, by Glasses.
The total number of cattle reported
in 1910 was GIG, 557. OF these, 1898, O20
we're dairy COWS, the total value of
which was $7,51S,O00, and the average
value $31.CO. The number OF farms
reporting dairy cows was S6S77, or
9O,G per cent. of the total number Of
farms in the State. Cows not kept
for daily purposes numbered $500,
and their average yalde was $25.25.
Yenrllng heifers-that Is, heifers born
during the year 1900 numbered 75,'
O49; average value, $14.OO. Mature
steers and bulls born before 1909,
were ILLS In number; average value
$3.50. Yearling steers and bulls,
born in 1909, numbered 69,20S; aver
age value, 1895. The total number
Of spring calves, born in 1910, was
Sc, ITO, and the average value, $IlO.
It may be noted that the census OF
1900 showed larger number OF
calves, namely, 134,1O7. This differ
ence was deu to the fact that the cen
sus Of 1900 was taken as OF date June
], after all the spring salves were
born, and the groups"C Calves" included
all cattel less than ] year OF age, 80
that lie number and average value OF
calves were greater than in 1910, when
the census was taken on April Is, and
only Calves born in 1910" we're in
cluded in the comparative group.
The total number OF horses and
colts reported In 1910 was 1898, OF
these 159,4S1 we're classed by the cen
sus as mature horses-that is horses
born before 19O9-and their value was
SIT 10000, and average value, $10S.6O.
Yearling colts or colts born in 1909,
numbered 1879, and their average
value was CLIO. Spring colts born
In 1910 we're 3,433 In number, and
their average value reporteda as 1885,.
ii may denoted that only 81 per cent
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