Show 1 1 74 1 1 17 7 7 1 r a I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 r 1 av 10 I 1 I 1 I 1 s 1 1 1 that Is W value of the Aniz aLlS n uncle P 1 sams faral I 1 I 1 r I 1 I 1 bew I ork 6 1 the february statistic report of the department of agriculture re lates to the numbers ana values of I 1 I 1 karm animals there is a report ed I 1 in hersea mules and cattle and a decrease in abeel and swine the largest rato of increase in creaso is in I 1 horses amounting to fully 5 per cent and it Is general throughout I 1 the country though largest west of I 1 I 1 beeda the iti creaso in mules averages 31 per cent the I 1 in creme in cattle in nearly I 1 per cent corresponding closely with ad vances in population it makes the agero gate over or 82 per aundre 1 I of population the I 1 nearly as large ia cows as in other cattle in sheep the decline appears to be between 2 and 3 per cent the aggregate of flocks being about there is a smaller decline in the of swi neless than I 1 per the aggregate over prices of horses find mules are nearly the same sa last year but both are lower than in the year 1884 when the continuous advance from 1877 culminated the avern age of all ages is 71 32 fur horses 33 and 87 cents respectively from 1879 the annual ea of prices of bilth cows and of other cattle the decline has since been uninterrupted without exception for either C las 8 of stock the fall in I 1 I 1 POWs has been from 26 24 65 over 6 per cent and in oxen and other cattle from 19 79 to 17 79 a decline of 10 per cent ja the last year in ab beep as in other stock the I 1 annual advance was quite steady after 1879 and amounting to 22 perc eutin fourbears four years FromI to 1880 the decline was over 25 per cent or from 62 53 to 1 91 the neit years average was 2 01 and the present 2 05 or near the depression of 1879 when prices L were the I 1 years there has been an advance in the average for aw i in 0 of all ages from 4 49 to 84 or 11 per cent the annual advance I 1 was c 0 from 1879 to 1883 thea d e and slightly adv a C I 1 again since aho a g regale value of all farm als is a more than a I 1 I 1 year ago the totals for cattle being I 1 smaller by about for sheep a trifle smaller with increase I 1 in those for horses mules and swine the horaces represent the in u lea Ule 69 I 1 ai soine and I 1 sheep a arand of for these I 1 bluses cluses of domestic animals on farms and ranches I 1 |