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Show LIVE STOCK STATISTICS. Total Number of Animals In the United States. Washington, Jan. 29. The department depart-ment of agriculture has issued the following: fol-lowing: The returns of the number of livestock onlarmsmtne umtea states on January 1, 1S99, show there to have been 13,065,307 horses, 2,134,213 mules, 15,990,115 milch cows, 27,994,225 oxen and other cattle, 29,114,453 sheep and 38,561,311 swine. These figures show a decrease of 295,604 in the number of horses, 56,069 in that of mules, 1,2C8,972 in that of oxen and other cattle, and 1,457,493 sheep. The average farm value of every description de-scription of live stock is higher than on the 1st of January, 1S98. |