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EEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Average quantity of seed sown jjer acre. 



FAK^i-ANnrALS. — The number of domestic animals in twenty-eight 

 EuroDeau states is given at 379,031,705, of which 31,573,GG3 are horses, 

 4,130,031 asse.H and mules, 89,078,248 cattle, 194,020,230 sheep, 42,080,493 

 .swine, and 10,931,034 goats. The sheep surpass in number all other 

 classes, amounting to 51.1 per cent, of the whole : cattle 23.7 per ceut., 

 swine 11.3 per cent., horses 8.3 per cent., goats 4.5 per cent., mules and 

 asses 1.1 per cent. The proportion of horses is especially large in Eussia, 

 amounting to 10.7 per cent, of the whole number of farm-animals in that 

 country. In Finland the proportion is 10.0 per cent. The lowest ratio, 

 1.5 per cent., is found in Portugal, and the next lowest, 1.8 per cent., in 

 Spain. The last-named country has the largest proportion of mules and 

 asses, amounting to 0.1 per cent, of the whole number of farm-animals; 

 next stand Italy, 4.9 ; Portugal, 3.0 ; Greece, 3.3 ; France, 1.5. Of cat- 

 tle, the largest i)roportiou, 52.7 per cent., is found in Bavaria ; next Wiir- 

 tem berg, 49.1 ; Saxony, 40.9; Switzerland, 44.7 ; Sweden, 44; Holland, 

 43.4; German duchies, 42.4; Belgium, 42; gradually sinking to the 

 minimum, 3.8, in Greece. Great Britain gives the most of lier atten- 

 tion to sheep, which constitute 73.5 per cent, of her farm-animals; in 

 Spain the proportion is 00.2; in Eoumania, 59.1; in Hungary, 54.0; in 

 Prus.sia, 54; in Norway, 53.3; in France, 52.5; in Portugal, 52; the 

 minimum, 14.9, is in Saxony. The German duchies have the largest 

 proportion of swine, 23.7 per cent.; next Saxony, 22.4; Belgium, 21.4; 

 Greece, 2. No goats are reported in the British isles or Denmark. In 

 Greece they constitute 40.7 per cent, of the total live stock ; in Portugal, 

 18 per cent. ; in Switzerland, 10.9 per cent. ; in Spain, 12.2 per cent. ; and 

 so on down to 2.4 per cent, in Eoumania. 



Taking all the states together, there are for each 1,000 inhabitants 112 

 horses, 15 asses and mules, 318 cattle, 0,878 sheep, 15 L swine, and goats. 

 Eussia, Denmark, Finland, and Hungary stand at the head of horse- 

 owning states; Spain, of mules; Ireland, Denmark, Bavaria, Finland, 

 Norway, and Wiirtemberg, of cattle ; Spain, Great Britain, Eoumania, 

 Denmark, Hungary, and Norway, of sheep ; Hungary, Spain, Denmark, 

 and the German duchies, of swine; Greece stands at the head of the 

 goat-owning states ; next, with a wide interval, comes Spain, and then 

 Portugal. 



Belgium has the largest number of horses for her territory, being 

 nearly equaled by Great Britain; Denmark, Holland, Hungary, Prussia, 

 and Ireland following next in order. Spain has tlie largest number of 

 mules; Great Britain the largest number of sheep, the German duchies 

 and Belgium the largest number of swine, and Greece the largest number 

 of goats. The proportions will be found in the tables below. 



