LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT AND 

 CONTROL SOCIETIES 



There remain to be noticed the Live Stock Im- 

 provement and the Control Societies, which, it will 

 be remembered, alone are subsidised by the State, 

 so far as the former are concerned, under the law 

 of 1887 and the subsequent laws of 1893 and 1902. 



Here I will quote a table which shows the advance 

 of these Live Stock Improvement Societies from and 

 before 1890 to 1909, and also their total number in 

 that year : 



Year of Establishment. 



Before 1890 

 1890-94. . 



1895-99 

 1900-04 

 1905-09 . 



Number of Live Stock Improvement Societies. 



Horse- 

 breeding 

 Societies. 



21 



33 



45 



59 



112 



Cattle- 

 breeding 

 Societies. 



270 



66 

 98 



157 

 385 

 553 



1259 



Pig- 



breeding 

 Societies. 



3 



2 



26 



87 



135 



253 



Sheep- 

 breeding 

 Societies. 



I 

 36 

 65 



102 



Total. 



90 



133 

 229 

 567 

 865 



1884 



I have already explained the object of the Control 

 Societies, which is briefly : 



" To keep account by means of careful registration 

 of the milk yield of each cow, of the amount of the 

 butter-fat in the milk, and the relation between the 



