20 ANIMAL FOOD EESOUECES OP DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



being foreign ; 1,400,000 sheep, of which 60 per pent, 

 are foreign, and 12,000 pigs, nearly all of which are from 

 abroad. 



In 1870 it was officially estimated that the meat con- 

 sumption in the United Kingdom was about 96 lbs. per 

 head per annum. Later estimates gave it, in 1872, at 

 108 lbs. per head. We paid for the food substances of 

 animal origin which we imported into this country, in 

 1883, the sum of nearly fifty-one and a-half millions 

 sterling, made up as follows : — 



Living Animals — cattle, sheep, and swine 



Bacon 



Beef 



Butter and butterine ... 



Cheese 



Eggs 



Fish, cured 



Hams 



Lard ... ... 



Beef and mutton, fresh or preserved 



Pork 



Poultry and game 



£11,978,996 



8,178,123 



2,878,264 



11,755,419 



4,882,502 



2,728,396 



1,773,027 



1,823,352 



2,243,956 



1,863,539 



759,651 



591,367 



£51,456,662 



This is a pretty good round sum for foreign imports, 

 exclusive of our home meat supply, dairy produce, game, 

 and fresh fish. 



The prices of meat are, generally speaking, advancing 

 year by year, as the following wholesale prices of 

 butchers' meat (per stone of 8 lbs.) in the Metro- 

 politan Cattle Market shows : — 



In 1862 the consumption of butchers' meat in Paris 

 (exclusive of pork) was said to be as high as 108 lbs., 

 per head. 



