26 RURAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND. 



Ill France there are about eight millions of head 

 slaughtered, which, at the average weight of eighteen 

 kilos of net meat, equal to one-half the weight of the 

 English sheep, give one hundred and forty-four millions 

 of kilos. 



From whence it follows that the produce from the 

 thirty-five millions of French sheep would be represented 

 by the following figures : 



Wool, . . 60,000,000 of kilos. 



Meat, . 144,000,000 



And the return from the thirty-five millions of English 

 sheep by these 



Wool, . . 60,000,000 of kilos. 



Meat, . . 360,000,000 



These figures, doubtless, are not of mathematical cor- 

 rectness, but they are near enough the truth to give a 

 sufficient idea of the general facts. I have rather reduced 

 than added to the results given by the statistics in the 

 estimate relating to England, and on the other hand 

 rather increased those as to France. David Low, the 

 learned Professor of Agriculture in the University of 

 Edinburgh, in his Domesticated Animals of the British 

 Islands, published several years ago, sets down the value 

 of wool annually produced in England, at 227,000,000 

 of francs ; but this estimate is evidently exaggerated. 

 The French commentator of David Low reckons at the 

 same time the produce of English sheep in meat, at six 

 hundred and forty millions of kilos, which is an impossi- 

 bility, even supposing all the English sheep were Dish- 

 leys. On the other hand, M. Moreau de Jonnes, in his 

 agricultural statistics drawn up from official documents, 

 estimates six millions as the number of head slaughtered 

 in France, thirteen kilos as the average yield, and eighty 



