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South Branch Intelligencer
Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia
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Report on the 20% decrease in beef cattle to population ratio in the US over the last ten years, with population up 33%. Cattle numbers fell from 25,640,337 in 1860 (pop. 31,417,331) to 21,633,069 now (pop. >40,000,000). Texas saw 414,137 fewer cattle since 1866. Attributed to rise in dairy farming (milch cows from 34% to 43% of total) and halved sheep numbers.
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1860 1870
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The decrease in the ratio of beef cattle to population in this country during the last ten years is said to be 20 per cent., the increase in population being 33 per cent. In 1860, with a population of 31,417,331, we had 25,640,337 neat cattle in the country; while now, with a population of more than 40,000,000, according to the report of the Department of Agriculture, we have only 21,633,069 showing a net decrease since 1860 of more than 4,000,000 animals. In Texas alone since 1866 the decrease in cattle has been 414,137 the number in the State at this time being only 2,697,338, to 3,111,475 in 1866. The cause of this is said to be the great increase in dairy farming, the milch cows in 1860 being 34 per cent. of the whole, while now they are 43 per cent.; but even the ratio of milch cows to population has greatly decreased in ten years, and the number of sheep is said to be less by one-half than ten years ago.