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Table 55. — Livestock: Density in Germany, 1922-1924, as compared with 1913 '■ 
Boundaries of 1923 
1913 
1922 
1923 2 1924 
Class 
Num- 
ber 
Per 
thou- 
sand 
inhabi- 
tants 
Num- 
ber 
Per 
thou- 
sand 
inhabi- 
tants 
Num- 
ber 
Per 
thou- 
sand 
inhabi- 
tants 
Num- 
ber 
Per 
thou- 
sand 
inhabi- 
tants 
Horses 
Cattle, total 
(Cows) 
(9, 973) 
4,988 
3,164 
Xu ru- 
ber 
66 
320 
(173) 
86 
55 
390 
Thou- 
sands 
3 3, 691 
16, 316 
(8,206) 
5,566 
4,140 
S um- 
ber 
60 
264 
(133) 
90 
67 
238 
Thou- 
sands 
■ ( 4 ) 
16,091 
(8,308) 
' -' • 
4,654 
Xu ru- 
ber 
""258" 
(133) 
Trtou- 
sands 
3 3,890 
17,296 
5 (8. 7961 
Num- 
ber 
27 
Sheep -. 
Goats 
94 5,717 
4, 351 
91 
69 
" 
Total 
52.968 
917 44,391 
719 
4v <> 
765 
Drop in number from pre-war 
8*577 
16.2 
4. 870 
5,392 
1,668 
87 5,938 
27 2.065 
63,439 
94 
Ducks 
Chickens... 
33 
1.010 
Total poultry 
71. 913 
1, 244 65. 205 
1.0.56 
71.442 ; 1,137 
Population 
57,800 
61,755 
62.275 B2;82S 
1913: See Table 54 for sources. 
1922: Germany, Statistisches Reiehsamt, Wirtschaft und Statistik, vol. 3, heft 2, Dec. 21, 1923. 
1923: Germany, Statistisches Reiehsamt, Vierteljahrshefte zur Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, vol. 33, 
heft 2. 1924. 
1924: Deutseher Reichsanzeiger und Preussischer Staatsanzeiger, Feb. 3, 1925. 
1 Census as of Dec. 1. 
' The livestock figures for 1923 are officially reported as of Oct. 1; however, by subtracting slaughterings 
for October and November from the 1923 figures, it is possible to get figures which, although not absolutely 
correct, allow of comparison: 
5 Includes 40.289 military horses. 
4 Not available. 
4 From Wirtschaft und Statistik. 
Classification 
Oct. 1, 1923 
Dec. 1, 1923 
(estin. 
Cattle 
Thousands 
16, 691 
17.308 
6,105 
4,675 
Thousands 
16,091 
15,832 
5,859 
4,654 
Swine 
Sheep 
Goats 
There is a general tendency throughout Germany to bring cattle 
and swine as nearly as possible up to pre-war numbers. The numbers 
of horses, sheep, and goats in 1924 actually exceeded the numbers 
that were found in 1913 within the territories now composing the 
Republic. 
The great reduction in area sown to cereals and root crops has 
resulteci in a large acreage returning to grass. As a consequence, 
sheep raising, stimulated by high wool prices, has greatly increased, 
especially on the large estates. During the period of monetary infla- 
tion and the circulation of an almost worthless mark, there were no 
better means by which the farmers could accumulate real wealth than 
by increasing the number of live animals on the farms. On the large 
estates of Pomerania and central Germany and on the larger farms of 
the northwest flocks have so increased during recent years that in 1922 
