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Show LIVESTOCK VALUES GREnTLYIIClEI Annual Report of Agricul tural Department Shows Total of $8,263,524,000. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. A billion : L a half dollars increase in the value J livestock on farms and ranges r'' United States over their valuc',,r ago was reported today by the Jersrt-ment Jersrt-ment of agriculture in its annual report. Total value of all such livestock $S, '2(53. 524,000. There was an increase in the nurao': of cattle, other than milch cows, amounting amount-ing to 4.5 per cent compared with an increase in-crease of 4.7 from 1916 to 1917. This indue in-due to an increase of 4.2 per cent ' calves, 22.7 per cent in heifers, for mU S.o per cent in other heifers; a decress; of 3.2 per cent in steers and an Incre. of 1.9 per cent In other cattle. Swine showed the largest number ow the previous year. It was 5.7 per ct? those over six months old increasing I per cent and under six months 6." r cent. Fur the first time swine valued at more than a billion dolls-'. Their total value was 19.3 per cent than the previous year. In numbers, horses have Increased ' 000: mules increased 101.000; milch . increased 390,000; other cattle im'iw" 1.S57.O0O; sheep increased 1,254,000, -swine increased 3,871.000. |