100 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



Austro-Hungary ... 



Belgium 



France (with mules 



asses) ... 



Germany 



Italy (with mules 



asses) , 



Bussia in Europe 

 Sweden and Norway 



Denmark 



Holland 



Spain and Portugal 



Turkey 



United Kingdom 



United States 



Canada 



River Plate States 



Europe. 



1880 3,282,790 



1880 271,974 



and 



1880 3,515,478 



1883 3,522,316 



and 



1877 1,626,658 



1877 17,589,188 



1882 621,519 



1881 347,561 



1882 270,456 



1870 752,275 



1874 1,100,000 



1884 1,904,515 



34,803,730 

 America. 



1883 11,169,683 



1881 1,059,358 



1876 5,600,000 



1,236,779 

 One of the most important revivals of late years is 

 tlie use of horseflesh, which for centuries had been under 

 ecclesiastical ban. 



Curiously it was through the people whose prejudice 

 against horseflesh remains most intense that the revival 

 began. During the siege of Copenhagen by the English, in 

 1807, the scarcity of provisions compelled the Danes to eat 

 their horses ; and the practical knowledge of the quality 

 of the meat thus gained led them to continue its use 

 after the original necessity had passed away. Possibly 

 the example of their Icelandic allies may have had a 



