INDEX. 



Abyssinia, 105. 



Afforestation, 170. 



Age-constitution and consumption, 250- 



251. 



Alfalfa, 58. 

 Algeria, 95. 

 Animals exported from U.K., values of, 

 19. 



Animal foodstuffs, definition of, 1 ; sup- 

 plies of in Middle Ages, 9 ; supplies 

 of in recent times, 10 ; improved 

 quality of, 14 ; specialities of, 32 ; 

 consumption of and racial vigour, 

 35 ; slow growth in total exports, 

 175; cold storage of, 182; deter- 

 mination of costs of, 187-190. 



Argentina, 56-62, 293 ; agriculture de- 

 scribed, 56, 57 ; statistics unreliable, 

 57 ; live-stock ratios and meat ex- 

 ports, 57 ; jerked beef industry, 58 ; 

 alfalfa pastures, 58 ; meat consump- 

 tion, 58 ; productive area, 60 ; 

 cereals, 60 ; carrying capacity of 

 pastures, 155. 



Aryans, vigour of, 6. 



Asiatic populations, 35, 224. 



Australasia, live-stock figures, 41 ; 

 effects of droughts, 42 ; summary, 

 80 ; trade in foodstuffs with 

 Canada, 306. 



Australia, 68-75 ; productive area, 68 ; 

 droughts. 69 ; live-stock figures, 

 70 ; exports, 70 ; population, 72 ; 

 transport, 72 ; artesian water, 73 ; 

 wool, 75 ; tropical area, 106 ; con- 

 sumption of fish. 206 ; exports of 

 condensed milk, 288 ; exports to 

 Eastern countries, 305. 



Austria-Hungary, 135-8 ; live-stock 

 figures, 136 ; meat imports, 136 ; 

 egg surplus, 137. 



B. 



Barley, how utilised, 158, 159. 



Basic slag, 144. 



Beef, exporting countries, 30 ; cost of 



production on ranches, 172; 



" baby " beef, 214. 

 Belgium, 134, 135 ; special exports, 



32 ; live-stock figures, 135. 

 Birth-rate and consumption, 250, 251. 

 Bohemia, 136. 

 Brazil, 65, 66, 110, 111 ; rise in meat 



exports, 66. 

 Breeding stock, significance of, 16. 



British Columbia, trade in animal food- 

 stuffs, 54 ; prospects of agriculture, 

 54, land values, 178. 



British East Africa, 107. 



British Empire, see Part. III., deficiency 

 in animal foodstuffs, 279, 284-9 ; 

 deficiency in feedstuffs, 280-? ; de- 

 ficient in butter, 287 ; deficiency in 

 milk, 288 ; wool production, 289 ; 

 live-stock figures, 291 ; mining in- 

 dustries, 294, 295 ; meat consump- 

 tion, 300 ; fisheries, 303. 



British South Africa, 25, 95-97 ; maize 

 exports, 282 ; imports of foodstuffs, 

 306 ; shortage of homeward cargo, 

 308. 



Buenos Aires, meat consumption o 

 58. 



Bulgaria, 81, 85. 



Butter, chief exporting countries, 30 ; 

 world's total exports, 208 ; n 

 economical, 212, 213. 



C. 



Canada, 49-56 ; deficiency in butter, 

 32, 286 ; ranching industry, 49 ; 

 dairying on prairies, 49 ; milk pro- 

 duction, cfd., with population, 49; 

 meat production possible in prairie 

 provinces, 49, 55 ; exports of feed- 

 stuffs, 50 ; areas for settlement, 50 ; 

 exports of animal foodstuffs, 51 ; 

 economic structure of, 51 ; live- 

 stock ratios, 52 ; sheep, 52 ; change 

 in butter exports, 52, 53 ; imports of 

 live sheep and mutton, 52 ; competi- 

 tion of cereals, 53 ; growth of 

 dairying, 54 ; expenses of clearing 

 forest land, 176 ; output of poultry 

 products, 216 ; butter exports, 286 ; 

 live-stock trade with U.S., 288 ; 

 trade with U.S. in agricultural pro- 

 duce, 305 ; imports from Austra- 

 lasia, 306. 



Capital, supplies of for agriculture, 148- 

 150 ; charges for increasing, 

 180-2. 



Carbohydrates v. fats, 230. 



Cattle diseases, 107, 272. 



Cattle, international trade in, 30, 31. 



"Cattle units" defined, 36; world's totals, 



36. 



entral America, 108. 

 ereals, oil-content of, 230 ; competi- 

 tion of, 157-163 ; world's produc- 

 tion of, 312. 

 haco, 64. 



