Twenty Years* Changes in our Foreign Meat Supplies. 495 
Pbices and Imports op Beef. 
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EXPLANATION OF ABOVE DIAGRAM. 
The object of this Diagram, as described on pap;e 493, is to show the relation 
3f our current prices to the imports of each year. The bhick lines running across 
,he Diagram show the limits of the yearly average prices of live meat per Ih. 
jinking the offal) at the Metropolitan Cattle Market. The dotted lines give the 
yearly average prices per lb. of the dead meat in the Loiulou Central Bleat Market 
is quoted in the Kegistrar-Geueral's Eetnrns. The figures in the left-hand 
bolumn represent prices in pence per lb. Tiie figures in the right-hand column 
i-elate to the shaded portions of eaoli column, and give the number of pounds of 
ibeef, live and dead, imported per bend of tlie populution. Thus the first quotation, 
jthat for 1867, may be read from the " Cattle Market " prices as ranging from 
^\d. to 1^(1. per lb. ; tlie higliest quotation from this market, or Ihd. to gjti. per lb., 
being reached in 1873, and the low.-st in 1880, or 4fd. to7^r(. perlb., prices having 
'u-aotically returned to tlicir level of twenty years ago. The "Dead Meat " prices 
■angoJ from i'id. to iy-d. per lb. in 18G7 up to 5.J(Z. to ^d. in 187:!. They have 
alien rajiidiy since 18S:). Tlie shaded, or imiiort, caiunins sliow that 4 ih. per 
lead was imported in 18G7, that this rosn to 10^ lb. in 1880, and to ll j lb. per 
.cad in 188:-5, falling since tlien to 8,^ lb, ])er hi ad. Prices as well as imports in 
he la>t three years have i;i all grad' s continually fallen, 
