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Increase during the year.

17. Two Persian donkey stallions were pur-
chased locally during the year.

Casualties.

18. No donkey stallions died or destroyed
during the year (vide Table VII).

Sales.

19. Two Italian donkey stallions were sold dur-
ing the year as shown in Table VIII. for reasons given
against each of them.

Number of donkey stallions
present.

20. The strength of donkey stallions, as it stood
on the 1st of April 1894, is shown in the following
table:—

Of these 20.10 were at stud work (vide Table IX).

Pony mares covered.

21. The pony mares annually covered by Gov-
ernment donkeys during the last five years are as
follows:—

Last year the number covered by the Beluchistan donkey stallion, viz, 4, was
included in the total coverings; otherwise the total coverings of the Bombay
Presidency were 842. No donkey mares were covered during previous years nor
in the year under report.

Demand for donkey stal-
lions.

22. Sind is the only tract in the Presidency where mule-breeding is popular
and carried on to a very great extent. The following
Local Boards and States are willing to purchase donkey
stallions, and arrangements have been made to supply
them this season:—

From the beginning of February to the end of March 1894, five donkey
stallions accompanied the Inspectors on tour. The results were so successful
that I propose letting them tour throughout the next season on the same condi-
tions. Fifty-six mares were covered in the Deccan and Guiarát against 28 in
1892-93 and 1 in 1891-92.

Number of mules purchased.

23. During the year 8 mules were bought by the Commissariat Depart-
ment for transport purposes as against 151 last year
(vide Table X).

                          (b).—REVENUE SECTION.

                                I.—Horse-breeding.

Cost of feed, keep, &c., of
Horses and Pony Stallions.

24. Table XI. gives the cost of feed, keep, attendants, transit, &c., of Gov-
ernment horse and pony stallions during 1893-94, and
the table entered below shows the average cost per
annum during the preceding five years:—