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of the value of the offal and manure on both sides, as 

 these should about balance each other, and valuing the 

 kilogramme of meat at 1 franc (5d. per Ib.) : 



FRANCE. 



Milk, . . 100,000,000 francs, or 4,000,000 



Meat, . . 400,000,000 16,000,000 



Work, . . 200,000,000 8,000,000 



Total, . 700,000,000 28,000,000 



Equal to 70 francs per head, and 14 francs per hectare 

 (55s. per head> and 4s. 9d. per acre). 



UNITED KINGDOM. 



Milk, . . 400,000,000 francs, or 16,000,000 



Meat, . . 500,000,000 20,000,000 



Total, . 900,000,000 36,000,000 



Equal to 110 francs per head, and 30 francs per hectare 

 (85s. per head, and 10s. per acre). In England proper 

 this produce may be reckoned at about 50 francs per 

 hectare. 



These figures are verified by a fact extremely simple 

 and easy to prove namely, the average price of the 

 animals in the two countries. Generally speaking, the 

 current price of an animal is a sufficiently correct criterion 

 of the profit which the purchaser expects to derive from 

 it ; now it is invariably the case that the average value 

 of horned animals in England is much above what it is in 

 France. It is not even necessary to go so far as England 

 to ascertain a difference of the same kind. We have in 

 France two districts the one where they do not work 

 the cattle, and the other where they do. If we take the 

 average values in these two quarters, we find that in the 

 former it is very much above what it is in the latter ; 

 and yet the art of rearing cattle for butcher-meat only 

 is still scarcely known in France. What would that be 



