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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Chart No. 1. — Live Stock in the United States. 



/7^ New England. 



Giving our attention first to the country at large, it will be 

 seen that, with the exception of dairy cattle, all other classes 

 have not only relatively but actually decreased in the decade 

 from 1900 to 1910, and that while dairy cattle have increased 

 in the same period something more than three and a half 

 million, this has been barely sufficient to keep pace with the 

 increase in population. 



The next matter to which I wish to call your attention is 

 the relatively small numbers of all classes of domestic animals 

 in New England as compared with the country as a whole, 

 particularly meat-producing cattle, sheep and swine; and 

 to the further fact that all classes, dairy cattle included, 

 have shown a marked decrease in New England during the 

 decade. In this connection it is of course necessary to con- 

 sider the two classes of population: the consumers, most of 

 whom dwell in the cities; the producers, or those who live in 

 the rural districts. The United States Census divides the 

 population of the country into urban and rural population, 

 including in the urban population all those who dwell in 

 cities or incorporated villages of 2,500 inhabitants or more. 

 As you know. New England differs from the rest of the United 



