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TabIvE VII. — Number of Head of Livestock inJuding Poultry 

 on the Various Farms. 



As this table does not show the average ntimber of head of livestock for 

 each farm we shall complete it by the following : 



Table VIII. — Average Number of Head of Livestock including Poultry, 

 per farm in 1906 and 191 1. 



As we see, except in the case of sheep (i), the number of head of live- 

 stock per farm has considerably increased in the space of five years. It 

 seems that the immediate anxiety of the farmers, from the moment of 

 their installation was to have at once a sufiicient number of horned 

 cattle. Only afterwards they put themselves out to get horses, but the 

 increase in the number of the latter has been far more rapid. It wiU not 



(i) This is quite usual. Consulting Engelbrechts' Landbauzonen Atlas, (T. H. Engel- 

 BHECJIT, Die Landbauzonen der Aeussertropischen Laender, Berlin, 1899, 3 vol. 4to.}, we find 

 both in the Old World and in America a progressive decline in sheep farming, in proportion as 

 the population increases in density. 



