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of penetration into muscular tissue was 20 mm. under a thin su- 

 perficial layer of connective tissue." 



R. H. REW. Prices and Supplies of Live Stock and Meat. - 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Agr. Statistics 1909, Vo- 

 lume XLIV, Part III. London, 1910 (Cd. 5268), p. 189. 



" Statistics of supply : the following table summarises the receipts 

 from oversea, during each of the past five years, of beef, mutton, 

 and pig-meat respectively. In the case of beef the imports of live 

 cattle (excluding those from the Channel Islands), with their esti- 

 mated carcase weight, are separately shown: 



" The total imports of beef in the two latter years of the period 

 were considerably smaller than in the three years 1905-07, and the 

 deficiency, assuming home supplies to be stationary, would suffice 

 to account for the rise in prices. It may be noted that whereas 

 in 1908 the number of live cattle fell off without any compensating 

 increase in the imports of beef; in 1909, on the other hand, the 

 decline in live imports was more than counter-balanced by the in- 

 crease in beef, which reached the highest total on record. The 

 total imports of mutton were also larger in 1909 than in any pre- 

 vious year, notwithstanding the practical disappearance of the trade 

 in live sheep. Imports of pig-meat, on the other hand, showed a 

 remarkable decline and, indeed, fell to a smaller total than in any 

 year since 1895. 



"For home supplies of meat there are at present no official data, 



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