STATISTICS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES 7 



In 1892, the population of France was 38,333,000. 

 The number and classification of horses for the same 

 year was as follows: 



Horses Employed in Agriculture 



Geldings and stallions 1,080,000 



Mares 1,019,000 



Stallions for breeding 8,886 



Mares for breeding 178,237 



Colts, one to three years old .... 328,099 



Colts, less than one year 248,051 



2,862,273 



Horses Employed in Cities 



Paris 90,127 



In other cities about 660,000 



750,127 



Army horses . . . 143,000 



Government studs stallions. . . . 2,700 



145,700 



Total 3,758,100 



This gives one horse for every ten, or ten to every 

 one hundred inhabitants. It may be said, however, that 

 the exact number of horses maintained in cities cannot 

 be secured but the estimate given above is believed 

 to be very nearly correct. 



The population of the German empire, in 1895, was 

 52,279,901; the number of horses (understood to in- 

 clude those in the cities) was 4,038,485, or one horse 

 for thirteen, or seven and seven -tenths horses to every 

 one hundred inhabitants. 



These three great European countries 1 had a popula- 

 tion, at the dates mentioned, of 131,172,855 and 9,313,- 

 745 horses, or one horse to every fourteen inhabitants; 



1 The figures for Great Britain, Germany, France and Holland were 

 secured through the kindness of the American Consuls. 



