Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-04

poses also show big fall off, dropping from As
i OS5 600 at the beginning of 1919 900 at
the beginning of 1921, a decline of about two and
a quarter millions in number. Dairy animals, al
ways in demand to, meet the requirements of our
domestic market and the growing demand from
other parts of the world, showed marked fall
Off the total number in January, 1921, being 20,
$4,000 against 23 600 at the beginning of 1919.
Sheep whose value is determined in part by their
food qualities and in part by the prices of wool,
show a startling fail off, from 900 at the
beginning of 1919 to As O67,OO at the beginning
of 1921, actual decline of 100000. Horses on
farms, which were greatly in. demand from Europe
down to the closing year of the war, but which
were being displaced at home in an appreciable
extent by the increased of the automobile, road
tractor and farm machinery operated by the in
ternal combustion engine, dropped from the high
water mark of 21,565.O00 in 1913 to 20 1S3,OO0 at
the beginning of 1921, though the number of mules
shows marked change.
Presumably adds the banks statement these
reductions in the number of farm animals since the
close of the war made in part result of
the expectation that prices would fan with re-
ductiOn of demand from abroad, and the deflaton
which was expected in prices in the domestic mar
ket and this expectation has been more
sharply realized than is shown by the figures
Of numbers. While the total number of food ami
mals-cattle, sheep and swine showed fall off
of little over per cent in the two years in
question the fall off in their value was over sol
per cent.
The total valuation of the three groups of food
animas-cattle, sheep and swne-fell from &c.
D39000,000 at the beginning of 1919 to 1894
$1,000 at the beginning of 1921 the actual fall off
in number being $4,000, and in actual value
81, O45OOO,000. Swine especially showed a tremen-
dous decline from $1,642 900 900 in value at the
beginning of 1919 to only 1856, 100 900 at the be.
ginning of 1921 sheep fell from 1868, 900 900 to
only $3.50 600 900 in 1921 CATTLE other than dairy
animals dropped from 81, 993, 100000 in value at
the beginning of 1919 to $1347 O00, 600 at the be-
ginning of 1921, while showed n less strik-
ing reduction, dropping from 81 $500 600 to ST.
492, 600, 900
These declines in the farm value of the respec-
tive groups of animals are sharply illustrated in
the fact that the average per capita value of the
swine of the country dropped from $2202 at the
beginning of 1919 to $1299 at the beginning of
1921; sheep, from $l163 to $641; cattle, other
than dairy animals from $4422 to $3141, and
milk cows from $500 to $63.97. Horses, which
averaged Sll0.77 per head at the high water mark
of 1913 and $9S48 per head in 1919, were but |
$S2.45 per head at the beginning of 1921,~and the
value of all horses farms which stood at 81
27S,222 600 at the beginning of 1913 was but ST.
664,166O0O a the beginning of 1921, again illus
ratng the rapidity with which the internal COM |
bustion engine, in passenger and freight automo- |
biles and farm machinery is performing the serv-
ice for which the country formerly relied upon the |
horse.