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BKITISH IJMPORTS OF LIVE STOCK. 



The food supply of Groat Britain is exercising the minds of British economists 

 and the people generally. Before the advent of the cattle plague the imports of 

 live stock were heavy and constantly increasing; now the scarcity is more se- 

 vere, and must so continue. It Avill be seen that the importation has reached 

 a million and a third of animals yearly, saying nothing of poultry and a million 

 and more of eggs daily. The following is a table of these imports : 



Tlie following is a statement of the range of prices, for six years past, at the 

 Metropolitan Market, London. The prices are not per pound, but for eight 

 pound.^ — the shillings being (very nearly) twenty-five cents in federal money. 

 It will be seen that mutton, as for many years past, is higher than beef — being, 

 at the present time, from 85 cents to $1 50 per stone of eight pounds, or lO.J 

 to 18f cents per pound : 



Beef, from 



Mutton, from .. 

 Lamb, from . . . 



Veal, from 



Pork, from 



Aug., 1861. 



d. s. 



10 to 4 

 2 to 5 

 to6 

 4 to 4 



10 to 4 18 



Auff., 1862. 



d. s. d. 

 4 to 4 10 

 8 to 5 4 

 to 6 4 

 to5 

 8 to 4 10 



Aug., 1863. 



Aug., 1864. 



Aug., 1865. 



Aug., 1866. 



d. s. d. 



4 to 4 10 



6 to 5 2 



0to6 8 



4 to 4 8 



6 to 4 6 



d. s. 



4 to 5 

 10 to 5 

 8 to 6 

 to 5 

 6 to 4 



03 



4I4 

 86 

 04 

 64 



d. s. 



to 5 

 4 to 6 

 to7 

 2 to 5 

 0to5 



d. 



d.s 



6'3 8 to 5 

 8 3 10 to 6 

 05 8 to 7 

 4 4 to 5 

 04 to 5 



s. d. 



5 6 

 

 4 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF GREAT BRITAL^. 



A statement of returns of the recent stock census of Great Britain was pub- 

 lished in the monthly report for July. The subject of agricultural statistics is 

 exciting the attention of the wisest political economists and most intelligent 

 farmers of that realm. The Board of Trade, or " Committee of Privy Council 

 for Trade," is now engaged in obtaining, through the cooperation of the " Under 

 Secretary of State " or " Home Secretary," and the county magistrates under 

 his direction, returns of the extent of land in Great Britain under the various 

 crops of the present year. The following are extracts from the communication 

 of the Lords of the Privy Council of Trade to the Home Secretary : 



"The Board of Inland Revenue have undertaken the distribution and collection of the 

 schedules prepared by the Board of Trade for the return of the acreage of crops ; and my 

 lords trust that the officers employed upon this occasion will be able to carry out this inquiry 

 as successfully and with as little objection on the part of the occupiers as the officers who 

 were charged with the duty of collecting the returns relating to live stock. 



