Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-11-03

comparable with those for 1900. the
compatibility OF the totals for all
cattle is TO 4 considerable extent ef-
feoted. The data for AL other cat
tie" are fairly comparable they show
q decrease OF e.3Sl,lSl. CT 6.S per
cent in number. and OF sl00.6 0,o00
or III per cent, In value The aver
age value per head thus fell OF slight
ly The decrease In "all other cat
tie" was mainly in steers and bulls.
The change in the date OF the CEN
sus and the form of the inquiries has
somewhat less effect upon the COM
parability OF the total figuref for
horses. mules. and colts than In the
case OF cattle To the changes, hoy
ever, Is due the decrease OF
In the number and OF 81,
'rhe value OF sprins colts. ~IH1
classes OF horses and mules incre!
H,6lS.0OO. 900. or 142.7 per cent. in
value. and 5000 900, or l6.l per cent
in number. having more than doubled
, In average value per head. II should
I've remembered that horsef and
mules not on farms are OF included
In these statistics.
Turing TO sheep and lambs u Ia
. noted the entire decrease In num-
. Der was 9,6s4.64S, the decrease he
, ing mainly In spring lambs. The de-
crease In the actual member OF ma
=, ture sheep was only IL per cent
while the value increased 5;.3 per
, cent
Z Number Of Farms Rerorting.
The total number OF farms In tho
y United States in 1900 was 6,3lo.357.
NJ these, $40 per cent. or 6,o17,l42,
Q reported domestic aa.mals; So per
} cent. or 5.265,772. reported cattle;
I 1S.7 per cent. or 4,67l AL, reported
r horses or colts: ss.5 per cent, OF A.
Q }i0.5s2t reported swine; 2s.f per
q ont. or | Sel,+7t. reported mules or
' mule colts; and only 9.6 pei cent, o.
!. $685., reported sheep or lambs,
: Number. Value and Average Value
The total number OF cattle report
ed In 1910 vas 6l.226.g9i. OF these
D 20.5s0,sis were dairy cows. the to
8 tai value OF which was $704,6l2.on9
. md the average value, s34.2+. The
: number OF farms reporting dairy
cows was 5,i27.635. or 500 per cent
0 OF the total number OF farms In the
: United States thus. there IL az aver
: age of 4 dairy cows per farm report
e ing such cows for the entire Unitet
States. Only i,440.3s3 farms. Of
i 22.7 per cent OF all farms, repor
Il cows not kept for dairy purposes
D. brt these farms report i1,7SS,4''
+ such cows, or twice as many per farm
n reporting as In the case OF dairy cows
y II L. noticeable that about farm II
O. report yearling steers and bulls AM
'e only about | In older steers AM
e. bulls, hut farms with yearling steer
ID and bulls report an average OF only
n per farm. while those reortlns olde
or beef animals show per farm.
q The total number NJ horses an
20 20 colts reported In 1919 was 1871,
-, ~ O6O or these. l7.344,9ls we're clss:
~ ed bv the census as mature horses.
n. Tho total number Of mules of a
20 ares In 1910 was i.iS2,572. when
Ies slightly moro than one-fIfth Of N
-" number of horses and colts Tn
q, average values OF mules are consider
90 ably higher than those OF horses {
on the corresponding age groups.
Is, The total number OF swine In 1911
o. was 5s.O0O.632. or which abo'
I've three-fIiths. or 35.Ol5.iOS. were r
IT. ported as mature hogs, that Il. "hoI
,er born before 1910" The total walt
he OF this class was s35O,9st, 00c. an
wa the average value sl0.02. Sprir
he piss were reported by only 2a.t p
lot cent OF all farms, the small propo