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manure by the land used for raising other saleable products 

 than live stock. This would indicate the value of the live 

 stock and live-stock products of the United Kingdom to be 

 £125,000,000 per annum in the period 1909-13. 



It may be remarked in this connection that the trade in 

 exporting cattle and sheep, though valuable to those engaged 

 in it, was relatively very small in the period under review. 



Let us now turn our attention to examining the returns 

 per acre in money and food which we get from the land of the 

 United Kingdom. 



When for " total value " we substitute " value per acre " 

 there is less reason for the complacency with which we have 

 hitherto regarded the results of our Hve-stock farming. When 



Table I. — Yield and Value of the Chief Farm Products 

 OF THE United Kingdom, 1909-13. 



Column 4 includes the value of by-products — Hides, Wool, 

 Potatoes used for Feeding, etc. 



Product. 



Price. 



Quantit}^ 

 Sold. 



Money 

 Value. 



Energy- 

 Value. 



^Vheat (1,800,000 acres) . . 

 Potatoes (1,150,000 acres) 

 Beef and Veal 

 Cattle Exported 

 Mutton and Lamb 

 Sheep Exported 

 Pork, Bacon, Ham 



IMilk 



Butter 



Cheese 



32s. 

 70s. 

 575. 



62s. 



635. 



1 30s. 

 735. 



Tons. 

 000 



1,393 

 4,000 

 810 



326 



400 



4,430 

 112 



29 



£ 



000 

 12,000 



14,750 

 52,000 

 196 

 25,000 



59 

 25,000 

 32,000 

 14,580 

 2,150 



C. 



000,000 

 3,600,000 

 4,000,000 

 2,380,000 



1,0 72,000 



1,814,000 

 3,220,000 

 900,000 

 116,000 









T 78,000 



1 7,100,000 



Summary after deducting three- fourths of Value of 

 Imported Feeding Stuffs. 





Acres. 



Money Value. 



Energy Value. 



Total. 



Per Acre. 



Total. 



Per Acre. 





000 



£000 





C. 



C. 











000,000 



000,000 



W^eat, Potatoes 



2,950 



26,750 



182s. gd. 



7,600,000 



2-576 



Live Stock 



36,000 



125,000 



695. ^d. 



8,000,000 



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