484 Twenty Years' Changes in our Foreign Meat Supplies. 
Why the present sources of our beef supply are thus mainly 
American, we may perhaps discover by noticing the existing 
condition of other countries as to their cattle stock. The 
following table will show how matters stand outside Great 
Britain, and what changes have been at work in the last two 
decades. These figures (again in thousands "000" omitted) 
will give roughly some notion of the relative position : — 
Cattle in the undermontionecl Countries in thousands. 
[" 000 " omitted.] 
No. of Cattle to 
Year nearest to 
eacli 
iOO hi- 
Country. 
Increase. 
Decrease. 
habitants. 
1 8R7 
100 1 . 
1867. 
1887. 
t , J Jo 
1,448 
20 
20 
O, t\J^ 
A. 1 ^7 
^ , i 0 / 
455 
00 
80 
United Kingdom, iucludinp;'! 
8,731 
10,011 
1,910 
29 
29 
Z , / 
403 
47 
50 
1 ni 7 
65 
55 
5:i 
1 1 0-1 
270 
08 
72 
1 971 
1 J.7J. 
203 
39 
35 
1 9-1 •> 
1 , OoO 
141 
20 
24 
1 Z , / oo 
1 10^ 
lo, XVO 
372 
• • 
33 
34 
10 , ( OO 
786 
35 
34 
Switzerland 
1 oil) 
219 
• • 
38 
42 
7,i22 
8,584 
1,162 
• • 
ou 
OO 
5,279 
5,592 
313 
• • 
34 
36 
2,905 
2,353 
552 
18 
14 
523 
035 
'il2 
12 
14 
3,709 
4,783 
1 074 
1 , u / ^ 
14 
16 
21,409 
23,028 
2,219 
32 
29 
23,820 
48,033 
24,213 
70 
77 
Canada : — 
2,018 
1 2,356 
87 
1 1,154 
Other Provinces .. 
1,404 
Anstraliisia : — 
New South Wales 
1,772 
1,308 
004 
599 
1,303 
'704 
South Australia .. 
124 
390 
200 
• Western Australia 
4 (J 
88 
42 
910 
4,103 
3,223 
88 
139 
51 
312 
853 
541 
South America : — 
18,000 
Uruguay 
5,952 
* lucluding Croatia and Slavonia, 
Such a picture of the stocks of a large portion of the world's 
surface gives an impression of almost general advance every- 
