Al^KICn/rUKAL IXSXTKAXCK IN" Tf)I5 29 



expressed in terms of percenta.i^gs of the values of the anini;ds suffering 

 casiuilties, were as follows : 



5() per eent 60 per cent. in the case of horses 



()() " " 80 " " " " " " cattle. 



* * 



To give a coni]:)lete i)icture of the ])resent ])Osition of insurance against 

 mortality among live stock in Switzerland we must also notice the numerous 

 societies which ])ractise insurance and are not subject to the Confe- 

 deration's control. They exist in almost all the cantons. We should 

 recal moreover that by tlie federal law of 12 December 1893, which concerns 

 the improvement of agriculture by the Confederation, when a canton or 

 an association of owners of live stock decides that insurance shall be com- 

 jmlsorily organized on a determined territory within a commune, a district 

 or a canton, the Confederation makes, by the medium of the cantons, grants 

 equal to those which the cantons themselves make to local funds. The 

 grants have been somewhat limited as a result of the application of the de- 

 cree of the Federal Council of 30 October 191 4 on fixing federal subventions 

 favouring the insurance of Hve stock. They have been reduced to i franc 

 ])er head of cattle insured and 40 centimes pe^ head of small live stock. Such 

 grants hav^e been made by seventeen cantons and half cantons. In conse- 

 quence of the application of the federal decree of 30 October 1914 federal 

 grants were diminished in 1914 by 80,000 francs as compared with 1913, and 

 in 1915 by 292,695 francs as compared with 1914. This measure has a 

 purely economic character and aimed at reducing the budget expenditure. 



In 1915 the Confederation made on an average a grant of 0.97 franc 

 ])er head of large li\-e stock insured and 0.36 franc per head of goats or small 

 live stock. Thus the average grant was 0.95 franc per head of live .stock ; 

 and the total ex])enditure was 791,347 francs as against 1,004,684 francs in 

 1914. The cantons paid in grants in 1915 a sum of 1,021,869 francs or 

 1.23 francs per head of live .stock insured. 



In the following table we give some representative data as to the grants 

 made to insurance against mortahty among live stock from 191 3 to 191 5 : 



