484 = 215 
Practical Agriculture. 
Importation 
ot' (lead meat. 
Total meat 
supply. 
proportion kept as stores or dairy stock ; but, after deduction f 
mortality of the few stores and of the cows, all are ultimate 
turned into meat ; and I here adopt the average dead weights, 
valued by Mr. C. S. Read, and corrected by my own inquinu 
And I have, too liberally, allowed as high a price per lb. for t 
foreign as for home-bred animals. 
Of dead meat we imported in the year, 1876, 
Cwts. 
Beef, fresh or slightly salted 170,711 
Fresh pork 26,539 
Meat, principally fresh mutton 95,400 
Meat preserved otherwise than by salting .. .. 280,859 
Total Fresh Meat 573,509 
Beef, salted 243,342 
Pork salted 350,151 
Bacon 2,809,990 
Hams 349,455 
Total Salted Meat, &c 3 , 752 , 398 
Total Dead Meat, &c 4 , 326 , 447 
The Estimated Total Meat Supply of the United Kingd 
in an average of grazing seasons, and at the rate of importat 
of the year 1876, is therefore, as follows: — 
Estimated Average Annttal Meat Sxtpplv of the United Kinoi 
with the relative Proportions furnished by Home Anim 
Imported Live Animals, and Imported Dead Meat. 
Weight in 
Tons. 
Per Cent. 
Meat from Home Animals 
1,147,063 
78f 
Meat from Imported Live Animals 
93,138 
6i 
28,675 
2 
187,646 
13 
Total Meat Supply .. .. 
1,456,522 
100 
But the importation of Fresh Meat has been consider 
more than doubled in eleven months of the year 1877. 
The population of the United Kingdom being now 
33,000,000, the average consumption of fresh and sal 
according to this estimate, is about 7 imperial stones perJ 
