| Show VALUE OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS prodigious amount of money invest ed in agriculture la tit the united states it if the average city man w ere ed hov he thought the price of a in the united states compared N with ith the inisi macket ket values a ear ago he would do think first of the coat of meat then says the cleveland leader he would remember that auto mobiles were much more in evid nee nce than they were 12 months back bach in the history of the motor carriage business he fie co id not be expected to have more than d dm ni ard uncertain notions of the pr ce of sheep which s greatly affected by the marl et at for wool so the average town dweller timelier would be ill ely to guess that cattle N were ere at least as high as the they were nere a year ago he ile wo id have the same op nion as to hogs and he would think of what the butcher s for lamb and mutton and put sheep in the same class he ile might efima a e the average price of horses somei somewhat hat less than it wag as at the be ginn ng of 0 1903 once a year he american alist a weekly paper devoted to farm interests takes much pains to ascertain the mariet marlet value of domestic animals in the T cited states and the changes which have taken pi pl ce in the 12 month months preceding this winter its ng fig ures seem to prove that the natural gue Q of the city man would be wrong in all respects cov s I 1 ept for milk are about 51 5 per cent cheaper other cattle rattle are report ed to average 13 per cent less in mar I 1 et value than a year ago hogs are about nine per cent ioner low er sheep have lost 71 7 per cent of their market price but horses are rated six per cent more than they were last winter it is clear that the automobile hae hait n not ot hurt the market tor for horses in any en ell p e as might have kept the ad vance from being as great as it would otherwise have bave been As for the de do dine cline in the price of farm animals used tor for human food and the lack of any corre rending change in the cost ot of meat to consumers that is a sore point with fill many people who are obliged to consider con lder carefully what they buy bu if I 1 the preat great pacing pack ng companies and the retail d alers in meats I 1 lave aie any an good OB ou for the cond t ons reported they I 1 tep rep it to themselves them selve the curl curi of the public is not satisfied the enormous val a e of domestic ani ant mals in the aggregate is sho shown an most str I 1 icely by the fact that tl a e decline in marl et pr ces dur ng the pat year y ear a change wl ich tell has not been more than about three per cent is calculated at a net decrease of nothing ot hing more is ceded to show how vast the farm ing int interests erects of the american people are and how prodigious the investment of the na ion in agriculture has become it Is still the greatest of all industries |
