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the next few years should see a marked improvement in Austria's 
balance of trade in cereal and vegetable food supplies. 
ANIMAL INDUSTRY IN AUSTRIA. 
The animal industry of Austria was and is more highly developed 
than the production of field crops. Her high upland pastures are 
specially suited to developing good breeds of livestock. 
Austria is rapidly recovering from war requisitions, which very 
greatly depletecl her stocks of swine and horses, reducing the former 
by 30 per cent and the latter by 20.8 per cent, as compared with 1910 
numbers. It is possible to quickly bring the number of swine up to 
pre-war level. This is largely a matter of rinding sufficient feed. 
However, the question of horses is more serious. 
Tables 75 and 76 show the number of each kind of domestic animal 
per 1,000 inhabitants in Austria and separately for Burgenland. 
Table 75. — Comparison between numbers of domestic animals in Austria, 1910 
and 1920. 
[Not including Burgenland.] 
Kind of animal. 
1920 
Cattle . 
Horses 
Swine. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Number. 
2, 218, 283 
298,068 
1,839,264 
295,993 
234,034 
Per 1,000 
inhabitants. 
349 
47 
2S9 
47 
37 
Number. 
2, 190, 433 
235,823 
1,246,663 
450, 491 
319, 711 
Per 1,000 
inhabitants. 
357 
38 
203 
73 
52 
Population in 1910 was 6,354,919; in 1920 it was 6,131,445. 
Table 76. — Comparison between numbers of domestic animals in Burgenland, 
1911 and 1920. 
Kind of animal. 
1911 
1920 
Cattle 
Number. 
143,512 
24,366 
121, 154 
29,381 
Per 1,000 
inhabitants. 
483 
82 
408 
99 
Number. 
129, 522 
16,434 
107, 357 
19,840 
Per 1,000 
inhabitants. 
436 
Horses 
362 
Sheep 
67 
Population in 1910 was 296,891; in 1920 it was 296,787. 
Table 77. — Domestic animals in Austria, 1910 and 1920. 
[Includes Burgenland.] 
Kind of animal. 
1910 
1920 
Difference. 
Horses 
Cattle 
Number. 
318, 652 
2.355,878 
1,172,697 
401,804 
1,932,268 
300,783 
239, 147 
Number. 
252,257 
2, 319, 955 
1,037,755 
564,976 
1,354,020 
452, 475 
322,203 
Number. 
-66,395 
-35,923 
-134,942 
+ 163,172 
-578,248 
+ 151,692 
+ S3. 056 
Per cent. 
-20.8 
-1.5 
-11.5 
Young stock l 
+40.6 
Swine - 
-29.9 
Sheep 
+50.4 
Goats 
+34.7 
1 Included under "cattle. 
