Show THE SITUATION county agent C A hymas suggests that all liveston livestock lives ak men willbe will be interested in Ws anis report which was issued from washing DG D G march 1 1135 A record reduction in the num mer her of livestock I 1 athe number of livestock on farms was sharply reduced during 1934 how great this redu reduction was shown by the departments apartments part ments livestock inventory report issued the middle of feb auary for the first time on rec ord the numbers of all of the dif ferent erent species decreased in the same year the percentage decreased edby by species wee we e ats fol lows aws horses 11 per percent e t mules ules 29 percent all catt cattler per cent sheep 47 percent hogs percent when all the spi species are converged conver converted ked to terms of ari an imal units which challow allow fordia for dif ferenc feren ferencek ced ed in size and feed require ments the reduction in total an mal imal units was abaft 13 percent this on was rn more or thau twice as large as in in any other afier year of the 45 years of record and the number of an imal units on farms january I 1 J 1935 was the smallest in the present century the average value per head hea of the different species on january 1 I 1935 as higher than 4 a year earli earlier er and in all cases the increased value per head hea more tha than n offset the effect of 0 he the decreased numb numbers lers so that tha the total value of each species on january 1 1935 was higher than a year earlier the total value of meat anim animals mil S i in n creased only about three per cent while the value of horses borses and mules increased about 15 5 percent the total value of 0 all species combined was waa the largest since january 1 1931 the report giving the values of different kinds of livestock on january 1 were mostly filled but before or about that date ate and before the sharp advance in in the market prices of cattle and hogs which occurred early I 1 in r this year if similar reports hae been obtained ab i out february 1 I the report value of cattle had been obtained about Febu 1 the reported value of cattle and hogs would have been much higher than ihan sh own in the report |