The world's opportunities and how to use them . ing farms. The Census of 1880 takes no account (except in regard tosheep) of the live-stock not upon farms. This is very consid-erable; for, according to the Census of 1870, there were in thatyear 23,800,000 neat-cattle on farms, and 4,273,000 not on farms;and 7,142,000 horses on farms, and 1,547,000 not on number of neat-cattle not on farms is now comparativelysmall, as the public lands upon which they formerly grazedhave been mostly bought up by the graziers, and the cattletransferred to farms, being so included in the Census of 1880.
The world's opportunities and how to use them . ing farms. The Census of 1880 takes no account (except in regard tosheep) of the live-stock not upon farms. This is very consid-erable; for, according to the Census of 1870, there were in thatyear 23,800,000 neat-cattle on farms, and 4,273,000 not on farms;and 7,142,000 horses on farms, and 1,547,000 not on number of neat-cattle not on farms is now comparativelysmall, as the public lands upon which they formerly grazedhave been mostly bought up by the graziers, and the cattletransferred to farms, being so included in the Census of 1880. But the horses not on farms include, and indeed mainlyconsist of, those employed for draught or riding in cities andtowns, and are thus not included in the Census. How impor-tant this exclusion is will appear from a few instances. Thecounty of New York is, territorially, the same as the city ofNew York, and contains only a few score of farms; the numberof horses in the county is put down at only 207; whereas, the CELEBRATED AMERICAN RARUSSee Note 4. LIVE-STOCK, AND ITS OPPORTUNITIES. 109 number actually employed for drawing the public conveyances,for trucking, driving, and riding, must be many scores of thou-sands. Kings County, on Long Island, includes the city ofBrooklyn and five outlying farming townships; the number ofhorses in the county is given as only 1673, whereas there areprobably one-third as many as in the city of New York. Phil-adelphia County, in Pennsylvania, is municipally the same asthe city, but contains a considerable number of farms. Thenumber of horses in the county is given as only 2763, whereasthere are doubtless half as many as in the city of New York;and so on, to a greater or less extent, with all other cities andtowns. The Superintendent of the Census appointed a specialagent to inquire into the number of sheep not on farms; itwould have been of great advantage had this been done in thefar more important matter of horses. In the absence of
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