114 ANIMAL FOOD RESOUKCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



No. OP Horned Cattle (Cows, Bulloces, and Buffaloes) 

 IK 1879. 



Assam ... ... 



Punjaub 



Central Provinces' 



British Burmah 



Berar 



■ Mysore 



Coorg 



Aymer and Mhaviwarra 



Madras Presidency 



Bombay „ 



24,434,138 



For Bengal there are no statistics available. 



Nearly 25,000 head of cattle are imported yearly into 

 British Burmah from countries "beyond the border. 



Of China, Tartary, Japan, and other Eastern States 

 there are no returns to be obtained. 



According to the census taken in the Punjab, Central 

 Provinces, etc., in 1879, there were supposed to be in India 

 about one head of horned cattle to every two human 

 beings. This would give aboUt 100 millions of cattle, 

 worth at the very lowest calculation £75,000,000. But 

 this assumption is clearly too high, and 50 millions of 

 cattle may be a fair estimate. About 8,000,000 hides are 

 annually exported, so that number must certainly be 

 killed or die, exclusive of the hides locally tanned. 



The Eiver Plate Republics cannot consume their 

 abundance of animal food; and they export largely 

 dried meat, extract of meat, tongues, etc. In 1872 and 

 1873 as many as 19,000 tongues were shipped from 

 Montevideo, but in 1875 this number had fallen tO' 

 7,000. From the. republic of Uruguay there is also 

 shipped annually from 30,000 to 40,000 tons of dried 

 salted meat, kno'wn as tasago orcharqui. It is estimated 

 that the cattle Slaughtered yield on 'ah average 117 lbs. 

 of meat when siWed and dried. 



The late Sir Harxy Meysey TJiompson, in a paper con- 

 tributed to the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal in 

 1872, calculated that 25 per cent, of our entire stock 



