Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture, 1876 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture, 1876Sir: I herewith submit a digest of January returns of the comparative numbers and home prices of farmanimals in the several States with the respective rate of yield and current prices in December of the principal farm-products of last season. I include, also, material from the chemist, microscopic observations, and minor facts in statistics and agriculture.Numbers. - The numbers of farm-anitnals, as indicated by the estimates of correspondents, are not keeping pace with the advance of the country in population. Horses appear to have made the greatest increase, amounting to about 3 per cent., cows are more numerous by 1 or 2 percent., while other descriptions of cattle have not increased. Sheep are found in larger numbers only in the more western States, the aggregate being little larger than that of last year. Swine appear to have decreased about S per cent. This may be correct, as no stock of tbe farm is so subject to rapid fluctuations in numbers, very few being kept more than two years, and quite a large and increasing proportion of pigs being killed before a year old. The States showing the largest increase in cattle are Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota, Louisiana, Iowa, no others having more than 3 per ceut. advance. Minnesota, California, Oregon, and Arkausas have the largest percentages of milch-cows.Nebraska shows the largest proportion of horses, in comparison with last year's record, followed by Oregou, Texas, Arkausas, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, and North Carolina. The largest increase in sheep is in Kansas, Nebraska, Florida, Texas, Minnesota, and Oregon.Prices. - The prices of horses of all ages appear to have retrograded very generally daring the year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.