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AN AGRICULTURAL FAGGOT. 



value of the animals at the markets before slaughter, 

 and this deducting exports and allowing for hides, wool, 

 etc., amounts to about £76,000,000. Reckoning by 

 value, therefore, the home supply would represent about 

 61 per cent, of our total consumption. The total average 

 consumption of meat is 130 lbs. per head. 



Poultry, eggs, rabbits and game may be regarded as 

 part of the meat supply, and of these our total imports 

 amounted in 191 1 to nearly £10,000,000. The value of 

 poultry and eggs sold from the farms of Great Britain is 

 estimated at £5,000,000, and to this must be added the 

 large Irish production. There is obviously a very large 

 production of poultry and eggs by private persons for 

 their own consumption, and a considerable quantity of 

 the farm production is consumed on the farms. On the 

 whole, with some allowance for the value of rabbits and 

 game, I estimate the total home production under this 

 head at £15,000,000, or about 60 per cent, of the total 

 consumption. 



Of fish the total value landed in the United Kingdom 

 by British vessels — v/hich may be treated as the " home 

 production," although the supplies are drawn from seas 



