Numeer oF HORSES ON AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS EXCEEDING 
ONE ACRE IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Year. 
1921 
1929 
1923 
1924 
1995 
Horses used for | 
agriculture, 
including 
mares kept for! 
breeding. 
No. 
822,739 
805,094 
798,122 
782,494 
773,200 
Unbroken 
horses, 
including 
stallions being 
1sed for service 
No. 
324,946 
314,451 
273,162 
236,223 
193.411 
Other 
horses. 
No. 
236,902 
220,950 
209,995 
213,481 
197,629 
Total 
horses. 
No. 
1,384,587 
1,340,495 
1.281,279 
1,232,198 
1,164,240 
During these years the number of horses used for agricultural 
Purposes has been slowly but steadily declining. As would be 
“Xpected, ‘other horses,” which include saddle and carriage 
horses and vanners, are also decreasing. The reduction in the 
umber of unbroken horses is very noticeable and indicates a 
Marked decline in horse breeding. 
6. Poultry.—In considering the numbers of poultry in the 
“Ountry it must be remembered that the Ministry’s returns relate 
only to holdings of over one acre in extent, and the numbers 
kept on cottage holdings and in gardens which are outside the 
3¢0pe of the returns are very considerable, while large numbers 
re kept in towns. Apart from this, however, the returns of 
the numbers of poultry are not likely to be so exact as those of 
Other live stock, since many occupiers do not themselves know 
the precise numbers of poultry kept and are in many cases dis- 
Nelined to take trouble in regard to a class of stock which they 
‘gard as of minor importance. For this reason the figures may 
be understated to a small extent, though they no doubt show 
Accurately enough the relative importance of poultry keeping on 
farmg in the different districts of the country. Returns of the 
Wmber of poultry have only been collected at infrequent intervals, 
Nd the following table gives the numbers on agricultural holdings 
4% the date of each return. 
SS 
Year. 
RE 
Fowls. 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
Turkeys. 
190g . 
1913 . 
199; . . 
1924 { E 
1995 % 
Thousands. 
28,249 
29,026 
24,816 
30,755 
33.670 
Thousands. 
2,669 
2,188 
2,391 
2,516 
2.629 
Thousands. 
686 
577 
517 
335 
591 
Thousands. 
628 
652 
445 
638 
653 
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* The number of oultry in 1925 has been estimated on the basis of 
the changes in a as shown by the returns of 1924 and 1926.