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REPORT ON THE CATTLE OP SPAIN, WITH ESPECIAL 
REFERENCE TO THE METHODS ADOPTED FOR 
REARING THEM IN DIFFERENT DIVISIONS OF THE 
COUNTRY; THE DISEASES TO WHICEL THEY ARE 
LIABLE, &c. 
By Mr. Consul Graham Dtjnl . 
(extracted from commercial reports to the foreign office.) 
Cattle, Horses, Sheep, &c. 
During September, 1865, when the dread of cattle disease 
called the attention of the Government to the subject, a 
careful census was made of the cattle, &c., throughout 
Spain, the result of which I give in the following Table, 
which also gives the census during 1858 and 1859, and 
exhibits the increase.* 
1858. 
1859. 
1865. 
Increase 
in 1865 over 
1858. 
1859. 
Per 
cent. 
Horses 
268,248 
382,009 
672,550 
350,863 
290,550 
76 
Mules. . 
415,978 
665,472 
1,001,878 
554,870 
336,406 
50 
Asses . . 
491,690 
750,007 
1,200,814 
766,119 
540,807 
72 
Cattle . 
1,380,861 
1,869,148 
2,904,598 
1,255,863 
1,035,450 
35 
Sheep. . 
13,794,959 
17,592,538 
22,054,967 
7,115,830 
4,462,429 
25 
Goals . . 
2,733,966 
3,145,100 
4,429,576 
1,547,028 
1,284,476 
41 
Pigs . . 
1,018,383 
1,608,203 
4,264,817 
3,057,824 
2,656,614 
165 
Camels 
... 
1,861 
3,104 
... 
1,243 
66 
Total . 
20,104,085 
26,014,338 
36,622,313 
14,651,501 
10,607,975 
It ought to be a reason of great thankfulness in Spain that 
the rinderpest has not attacked their cattle. 1'here seems to 
have been no well authenticated case up to now (April, 1866). 
Were it to reach Spain it would probably sweep away the 
most of the cattle. There would be a great deal of talking, 
and local boards, each with its own views, would make strin¬ 
gent laws and regulations, many of them judicious; but the 
peasants would not obey them, and there would be no system 
* A census was very carefully taken by the Government on the 24th 
September, 1865, showing the number of horses, cattle, sheep, &c., in Spain. 
On two former occasions a similar census has been taken, viz., in 1858, by the 
Ministry of Finance, and in 1859 by the Statistical Department. 
