tie ; 15.62 pure-bred slieep or 21.47 with other sheep ; 3.04 Angora 

 goats or 5.69 with other goats ; .67 ostriches.- 



Comparing these figures with those of other great countries 

 we find that the Union of South Africa has more than twice as many 

 horses and mules as the United States, more than twenty times as 

 many as France and more than twenty-four tim.es as many as Ger- 

 many per head of population. Yet it does not get half as much 

 value of its horse stock as these great countries do, where almost all 

 their agricultural wealth rests on the horse. 



The Union possesses more than half the number of horses, 

 mules and asses on the continent of Africa which do not number 

 two million fully while the Union figures are given as more than 

 1,140.000. 



The natives are agriculturists mainly; that is they produce 

 only as much as they need for food until the next season and if the 

 crops fail owing to droughts or other catastrophes they are depend- 

 ent on the whites. The percentage proportion of the live-stock 

 owned by the whites and natives as follows r 



Horses Cattle Pure bred sheep Other sheep 



Whites 78.27 57.37 88.94 84.08 



Natives 21.73 42.63 11.06 15.92 



Pure bred Goats Other Goats Pigs Ostriches 



YVliiles 89.10 44.22 40.67 99.28 



Natives 10.90 55.78 59.33 0.72 



A statistical survey of the past centuries is impossible in a 

 country that has been and is still continually expanding. Taking 

 leaps of about a century we find that each person in the Cape Col- 

 ony possessed in 



1690— .26 horse, 53.52 sheep, 4.74 cattle. 



1796—2.17 horses, 66.44 sheep, 11.52 cattle. 



1891—0.79 horse, 30.16 pure-bred sheep, 7.03 other sheep, 2.92 

 cattle. 



These figures are of no value except to show the pastoral wealth 

 towards the close of the 18th Century and remarked upon by Lich- 

 tenstein, Heitmann and many other explorers of that period. This 

 wealth continued into the next century and we are already famil- 

 iar with some of the achievements and catastronhes of that age — 



(2) Census Beturns Live Stock — 1911- 



(3) Census Beturns Live StocTc — 1911- 



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