The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-08-12
Montana Important as to Live
Stock and Farming

Washington, July 28.-The ten years
between 1910 and 1920 brought great
advances in the farming industry OF
Montana, according to figures made
public today by the United States Cen
sus Bureau as part of the returns fol
1920. Not only did the average value
of every farm in the state increase
during that decade, but the vlaue of
all farm property including land, build
ings, implements and machinery, and
livestock made remarkable increases
reaching as high as 500 per cent In
some instances, and more than doub-
ling in all others.
The figures show that the average
value of Montana farms increased
from S13,269 to $17,095 during that
period. The value of all farm prop
erty increased from S347 no in
1910. to S9S5,961 1903 in 1920. The value
of the land alone which was a little
more than S226,OOO,O 900 in 1919, in
creased to about 1892, 000, 900 in 1920.
The value of farm buildings increas-
ed from S24, 854,628 to $S4, 1854.
The value of livestock, which was
SS5,663,187 in 1910, increased to $751;
1S9, 567 in 1920.
But it was in the value of farm i'm
plements and machinery that the
greatest increase was shown during
the ten year period. This is an indica-
ton of advanced methods of farming
and shows that the Montana farmers
are replacing hand work with machin-
cry very rapidly. The value of all
farm implements and machinery in
Montana in 1910 was SIC, 500 ,653,
which had increased by 1920 to $780,
004,212. i
Ranks 25th.
Montana ranks twenty-fifth among
the states with respect to the value of
all farm property, twenty-fifth in the
value of farm land alone, thirty-sev-
enth with regard to farm buildings,
ninteenth with respect to farm inn
plements and machinery, and twenty
second in live stock.
Montana stands we'll as a mineral
producing state and holds its W in
many other ways, but figures an
nounced today by the census bureau
as part of the 1920 report do not indi-
cate that Montana is one of the i'm
portant live stock states of the union.
Its rank in this respect is given by
the figures of the census as twenty
first among the states.
The total value of all farm animals
in Montana for 1920 was S154,189,-
567. Of this total, the valuations of
different animals were as follows:
Horses, S4S,277, S91; mules, S1,119,-
$50; asses and burros, S53,735; cattle,
S~73,93s,253; sheep, S25,775,607; goats,
S12,410; swine, S2,88S.694 poultry,
81, 1894, 2e9; bees, $129.059.
Way Up on Line.
Texas, Idaho and California are the
only states which surpass Montana in
the value Of sheep.
The rank of Montana among the
states with respect to the different
farm animals is as follows: Horses,
II; mules, 33; asses and burros, 26;
cattle, 10; sheep, a; goats, 81; swine,
poultry and bees each 35.
The average value of horses per
head in 1920 was S90.12 as compared
with $1O5.O6 in 1910. The average for
mules was S142.SS in 1920, and $124.80
in 1910; for cattle, 54.40 and $24.26
respectively; sheep, S11.30 and s4.34;
and swine, s16.66 in 1920 as against
$3.50 in 1910. 1t thus appears that
while the average value per head of
meat has more than doubled, the case
was different with draft animals,
horses showing a decrease in average
value and mules only a moderate in
crease.