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STATISTICAL SURVEY OF IRISH AGRICULTURE. 



A more accurate idea of the number of Live Stock produced in Ireland 

 is furnished when we take into account the export trade, the extent of 

 which is shown in the subjoined statement : — 



Exports of Live Stock from Ireland to Great Britain. 



The growth in the export trade between 1855 and 1875 is remarkable, as 

 is also the expansion in the export trade of sheep and pigs in recent years. 

 Another aspect of the extent of the trade is presented in the Table that fol- 

 lows : — 



Table showing the Percentage of Cattle, Sheep, and Swine Exported from 

 Ireland to Great Britain to the Total Cattle, Sheep, and Swine enumerated 

 as in Ireland in each of the Years 1891 to 1901. 



A very large proportion of the export trade in cattle is a store cattle trade. 

 In 1 90 1 the proportion of fat cattle to stores was 261,690 of the former to 

 344.954 of the latter. About 46.3 per cent, of the total stores exported go to 

 Scotland, while as much as 74.2 per cent, of the total cattle shipped to 

 Scotland are store cattle. In fact it would appear from these figures that a 

 large number of Scotch farmers must have given up breeding stock of their 

 own since they find such a supply of young cattle raised on Irish pastures 

 ready to their hand — a fact that would, in a measure, explain the very high 

 percentage of the cultivated land of Scotland which is under the plough. 

 The extensive pasture lands of this country enable the farmers of Great 

 Britain, and especially those of Scotland, to forego, to a great extent, the 

 trouble and expense of raising young stock. The frames of the store cattle 

 exported from Ireland are built up out of our Irish grasslands — the animals 



