Twenty Years' Changes in our Foreign Meat Supplies. 479 
Sheep in tlie followiDg Countbies. 
[000 omitted.] 
Number of 
Sheep to each 
Countries, 
Year nearest to 
Increase. 
Decrease. 
lOU persons. 
1867. 
1887, 
1867. 

1887. 
Ctrfcti" T^rifnin 
28,919 
25,959 
2,960 
116 
81 
TtpI nnrl 
4,820 
3,378 
1,448 
88 
70 
TTiiiforl TC in c*"! lATTi ^ 
\J 111 Lett ii^lM^liUllJ, 1 
33,818 
29,405 
4,413 
111 
79 
OVfOllCLl ■ • . . 
1,590 
1,410 
180 
40 
30 
1,703 
1,G86 
17 
98 
87 
X-'CUIUUfI IV • • • • 
1,874 
1,549 
325 
102 
76 
Holland .. 
1,088 
753 
335 
25 
18 
Belgium 
58G 
3G5 
221 
12 
6 
"Prn npp 
33,282 
22,017 
10 665 
80 
59 
fTrtJi mnn V 
28,017 
19,190 
8,827 
41 
Rwi t7Ai'l fl nfl 
445 
342 
103 
n 
12 
5,02G 
3,841 
1,185 
24 
17 
Hungary 
15,077 
11,184 
3,893 
98 
71 
42,297 
46,725 
4,428 
01 
58 
United States 
40,853 
44,759 
3,906 
1U6 
77 
iin f OTi 
1,611 
"Mo Til trt na. 
XU.clUil.UUcb • • • • 
13 
* ■ 
OfViPT TM*nvin(^pQ 
\JvLiCX LlXUVlli^CiS • • 
1,428 
f^QTiQfliQ'n T^ntnl 
V./aUUU.lClU. XULcll . . 
2,43G 
3,052 
61G 
64 
64 
Australasia : — 
New South Wales 
11,5G2 
39,169 
27,607 
Yictoiia 
8,833 
10,700 
1,867 
:: 
0 , 0 JO 
2 784 
AVp.itpvTi Anslvfilm 
538 
1,809 
Queensland . * 
S,GGG 
8,994 
328 
Tasmania 
1,723 
1,G49 
"74 
New Zealand 
8,410 
15,174 
G,7G4 
Australasian Total 
43,644 
84,191 
40,547 
South America : — 
Argentine 
75,000 
ITiuguay 
15,921 
Falkland Islands 
"Go 
517 
452 
years. I am however so uncertain about the accuracy of the 
figures for the earlier years in these instances, although they 
appear in some of our official Blue-books, that I prefer to omit 
them from this survey. Spain, I believe, has not sent us any 
sheep for some years, and only once as many as 200 during the 
last twenty years. If her records, however, are correct, she has, 
even after a loss of 5,000,000 head, nearly 17,000,000 now, so that 
she has more sheep, such as they are, than Spaniards, She stands 
