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of animals sold off the farms of Great Britain during 1908-9, 

 were as follows : 



NUMBER. VALUE. 



Horses . . . . . . 53,000 1,590,000 



Cattle and calves .. .. 2,130,000 27,264,000 



Sheep and lambs .. .. 9,577,000 18,196,000 



Pigs.. .. ,.. .. 4,419,000 14,362,000 



Total ,. .. .. 16,179,000 61,412,000 



WOOL. 



The total value of the wool produced in Great Britain in 

 1908 is estimated at, in round figures, 3,100,000. 



DAIRY PRODUCE. 



The quantities and values of dairy products sold by the 

 farmers of Great Britain in 1908 are calculated as under : 



QUANTITY. VALUE. 



Milk, whole 850,000,000 gallons 24,820,000 



Milk, skim 

 Cream 

 Butter 

 Cheese 



17,000,000 ,, 143,000 



5,900,000 quarts 590,000 



490,000 cwts. 2,940,000 



500,000 ,, 1,400,000 



Total value.. . .. .. 29,893,000 



Here one sees by actual figures how the British farmer 

 looks to gain, in regard to dairy produce, from the sale of 

 whole milk, in regard to which foreign competition is a 

 negligible quantity, rather than from butter and cheese, 

 where the foreigner has a much better chance. It will be 

 observed that although we imported in 1911 butter to the 

 value of 24,600,000, British farmers sold, in 1908, whole 

 milk of a still greater value, while as against their own 

 850,000,000 gallons in 1908, the total quantity of fresh milk 

 imported into the United Kingdom in that year was only 

 10,460 gallons, though in 1911 the imports of fresh milk from 

 France and Holland amounted to 120,000 gallons. 



