PART II. 



Wastage of Animals in War. 



Chapter I.— GBNBEAL. 



Sonie years previous to the late war, while engaged on an 

 article entited " Horses of different Countries and their Supply 

 with relation to Military Service " read before the Royal 

 United Service Institution, London, I roughly endeavoured to 

 arrive at an estimate of the equine population of the world. 

 My calculations amounted at that time to close on 80,000,000. 

 The United States Department of Agriculture, in the very 

 valuable Reports of their Bureau of Animal Industry, computed 

 the number at 75,000,000. 



By Continents, I estimated the number approximately as 

 follows :— 



Europe ... ... ... 40,000,000 



Asia ... ... ... 11,000,000 



Africa ... ... ... 1,250,000 



Western ) U.S.A. Canada and Mexico 19,000,000 

 Hemisphere [Central and South America 6,000,000 

 Australasia 



(Austraha and New Zealand chiefly) 2,000,000 



79,250,000 



Of the 40,000,000 in Europe there were in :— 



Russia (European Russi^.) ... 22,096,000 



