Description for Chart 1
Pig herd and number of farms reporting pigs, Canada, 1921 to 2011

The title of the graph is "Chart 1 Pig herd and number of farms reporting pigs, Canada, 1921 to 2011."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 16 categories in the horizontal axis. The primary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 16 with ticks every 2 points. The secondary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 600 with ticks every 100 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1921 to 2011.
The title of series 1 is "Number of pigs (millions)."
The vertical axis is "number of head (millions) ."
The minimum value is 3.32 occurring in 1921.
The maximum value is 15.04 occurring in 2006.
The title of series 2 is "Number of farms reporting pigs (thousands)."
The vertical axis is "number of farms (thousands) ."
The minimum value is 7.37 occurring in 2011.
The maximum value is 477.66 occurring in 1941.

Data table for Chart 1
  Number of pigs (millions) Number of farms reporting pigs (thousands)
Year number of head (millions) number of farms (thousands)
1921 3.32 452.94
1931 4.7 437.84
1941 6.08 477.66
1951 4.92 364.07
1956 4.73 287.35
1961 5.33 223.4
1966 5.41 154.33
1971 8.11 122.48
1976 5.79 63.6
1981 9.88 55.77
1986 9.76 36.47
1991 10.22 29.59
1996 11.04 21.11
2001 13.96 15.47
2006 15.04 11.5
2011 12.68 7.37
Sources:
Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture, 1921 to 2011
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