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dut}^ of I per cent., the charge of i 14 P^r thousand for the patent to 

 circulate, the tax of 25 ten-thousandths a kilogramme on live stock 

 intended for the freezing chambers, and the statistical tax. Altogether 

 the fiscal burdens on breeding were equivalent in 1914-1915 to 4.62 per 

 thousand of the value of riiral lands, as against 5.21 per thousand in 

 1911-1912 and 5.06 per thousand in 1909-1910. 



The following figures show the total amount of the fiscal revenue de- 

 rived from breeding : 



Table II. — Fiscal Burdens on Stock-Breeding. 



Total Product 

 of. the Various 

 Year Taxes and 



— Duties 



I9O9-I9IO $ 3,606,677 



I9IO-I9II 3,270,857 



I9II-I9I2 . 4,459,685 



1912-1913 4.3i9'533 



1913-1914 3,920,622 



1914-1915 %95S,^^7 



Thus taxes on breeding do not furnish as much as four million pesos 

 a year, in spite of the increase in value of landed property and the fact 

 that the price of live stock has been multiplied by five in the last twenty 

 years. 



The following table shows the variations in the price of live stock from 

 1 91 1 to 1915, according to the export figures. 



Table III.. 

 Variations in the Price of Live Stock Exported in one Month, from 1911 to 1915. 



Kind of Live Stock 



September 

 191 1 



W-. 



rt o a 



September 

 1912 



I^IS 



September 

 1913 









September 

 1914 



September 

 1915 



K-5 



60° C 



Sua 





60° .5 



Bullocks 

 Oxen . . 



Cows . . 



6,951 

 1,177 

 5.968 



26.61 10,105 

 29.59! 1,412 

 18.89J 7,208 



Calves 2,9241 7. II; 1,370 



26.34 ",933 

 33.85 1,014 

 23-30J 2,778 

 13-491 977 



45-77 

 53-46 



13,100 

 838 



57-68 



37,668 64.27 

 2,386,66.77 



65.58 



38.44! 7,344j45-84j 8,325146.72 

 21.64 1,85119.33 1,838120.45 



As regards the development of the live stock industry, the data which 

 we give below, and which refer to the export of the chief products of live 



