MRGEORGE WHITELEY (Yorkshire, W. R., Pudsey)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he will state the number of cattle at the present time in the United Kingdom, and how that number compares with the same period in the year 1896.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. HANBURY,) PrestonThe number of cattle in the United Kingdom (including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands), on the 4th June, 1902, the latest date for which statistics are available, was 11,376,969. At the same period in 1896 the number returned was 10,941,655.