Value of Home and Foreign Produce. 13 



The number of live-stock of various kinds 

 in 1877 was, of horses, 2,834,000; cattle, 

 9,693,000; sheep, 32,157,000; pigs, 3,964,000. 



By the aid of the agricultural returns, 

 and those of the annual imports of foreign 

 and colonial produce, I have constructed 

 the following Table, showing the compara- 

 tive quantities of home and foreign growth, 

 and the value of agricultural produce at 

 present required for the annual consumption 

 of the people and live-stock of this country. 

 The grass, green crops other than potatoes, 

 and hay used on the farm, and straw, are not 

 included, nor the value of the increase of 

 horses. 



The total value of the home crop is consider- Quantity 



and value 



ably more than double that which we import, of home 



and foreign 



but the proportion of vegetable and animal food agricul- 

 tural pro- 

 is singularly close, as will be seen by this further 'i^^ce, re- 

 spectively, 

 arrangement of the figures : — consumed 



° annually m 



the British 

 Home Growth. Foreign. Islands. 



Value of corn and vegetable 



produce .... ;^i25, 737,500 ;^S2,537,5oo 

 Value of animal produce . i35;OCO,ooo 58,170,000 



