Show live stock values show heavy cuts inventory figures reveal loss to farmers irro prepared pared by the tha united states department or of service dinv inv inventory en to ry values of live stock on farms have been marked down nearly three billions of dollars in the last two years says the bure bureau alil of arrieu agricultural I 1 economics united states department of agriculture in its february report on the agricultural situation total flocks and herds increased 2 per cent in the last year but the total value of live stock dropped on january 1 1 1931 1031 to on january 1 1032 according to the bureau thus producers again saw a billion b and a quarter dollars wiped from the inventory value of their animals in a years time and due wholly to price decline says the bureau horses and mules were the only class of farm animals that did not increase in numbers last year the average farm value of a horse Is now only 53 there was an increase of 24 per cent in the number of cattle thus continuing the upward trend in production of beef cattle which has continued since 1028 1928 dairy cows increased approximately head in the year but the number of young dairy heifers heffers decreased the average dairy animal Is now valued at 40 compared with 57 a year ago there were more hogs on farms january I 1 as compared with a year ago hogs flogs in the corn belt increased the average hog brought on january 1 this year compared with 1180 a year ngo ago sheep have been increasing in number for ten years an increase of head being reported for last year the average value of sheep and lambs on january 1 was a head bead |