The total amount of live stock is small, considering the size of the island and its population. Horses are comparatively few in number; mules are apparently little used, while oxen are the chief draft animals. The number of sheep is trifling.

Sugar mills.-An attempt was made upon the farm schedules to obtain statistics concerning the number, capacity, and production of the sugar mills, or centrals, of Cuba, and it is believed that, considering the condition of the sugar industry at the time the census was taken, the results are quite as satisfactory as could have been expected. Many of the mills were in ruins, many others had been injured to a greater or less extent, and none of them were in operation at the time of the census, as the cane crop had not at that time been harvested.

The schedules received from Matanzas and Santa Clara, in which provinces most of the sugar is produced, were quite satisfactory. The most defective schedules came from Pinar del Rio, Puerto Principe, and Santiago, which were relatively of little importance in the matter of sugar production, and in which the sugar mills are, as a rule, small. Summing up the returns given by the schedules, it appears that Cuba contained at the time of the census 207 mills, of all sizes, which were in condition to be operated. Their capacity was jointly 8,754,192 arrobas of cane. The average daily production of these mills was 61,407 bags of sugar, at 200 pounds per bag. There were connected with these mills 85 stills, with a daily capacity of 161,751 gallons of

rum.

In the following table the results are set forth by provinces: