ABSTRACT
The evolution of stock farming is always closely connected with that of arable, and there would appear to exist a certain general scheme of development to which, in all countries of the temperate zone, it had consistently conformed in the past. In most countries of Europe, live stock, and primarily horned cattle, came into its own in the general scheme of the agricultural industry, to the inestimable benefit of arable branch itself. Now, turning to Russia in early part of twentieth century, one sees her just beginning to emerge, in her agriculturally more advanced districts, from the stage of three-course husbandry, with all the consequences of that system for the live-stock branch of farming. The first type of evolution could be observed in the South-Eastern and Caspian regions, as well as in New Russia. In the Caspian region extensive horse-breeding was also developed on a large scale.
