Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

236 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
CONSCRIPTION EXAMINATION RESULTS, I904
Percentage passing as fit A
Students........................................ 21.0
Trade........................................... 28.4
Industry......................................... 32.5
Fishery.......................................... 34.5
Farming...................................... 48.9
Miscellaneous................................. 23.5
Total....................................... 30.5
It was no light blow to 5,000,000 farming households to
lose 700,000 workers and to have thousands of horses commandeered at the same time, the latter making a loss almost
as great to agriculture as that of human labor. It is roughly
estimated that some I50,000 horses were placed at the
disposal of the military authorities.
TOTAL NUMBER OF HORSES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, I902-I906
1902.................................... I,515,IO8
903.................................................. 1,523,745
I904.................................................. 1,390,017
905.................................................. 1,360,7I5
906.................................................. 1,465,466
It is not known what proportion of those I50,000 horses
belonged to the peasants. Some of them must have bought
new horses to make up their losses, as the decrease in the
number of horses used in farming is said to have been some
40,000. It should be noted in this connection, also, that
numbers of cattle were butchered for military use, and it is
estimated that the cattle for farming decreased by some
50,000, bringing up the total of the decrease in horses and
cattle to some IOO,OOO.
NUMBER OF CATTLE AND HORSES USED IN FARMING, I903-1907
Year Cattle Horses Total
903........................... 1, 6,662 1,189,683 2,206,345
I904............................ 953,848 1,152,462 2,106,310
1905........................... 979,099 I,149,545 2,128,644
906............................ I,022,037,I154,I43 2,176,180
I907......................... I,008,922 1,204,03I 2,212,953