376 



Oil increasing our Supplies of Animal Food. 



Upon the whole, the above extracts show that these markets 

 are still as fully stocked as they have been, and that we may 

 depend upon their at least maintaining their supplies for a long 

 time to come. 



4. But the great source of lean stock now open to us is the 

 Continent : and the supplies imported thence are very rapidly 

 increasing. The following numbers tell us that plain enough, 

 but, unfortunately for the farmer, much of it is not lean stock, 

 but butcher-meat already fatted. 



Number of Animals Imported. 



