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Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat 
sompwliat high, but have since then continued to give way, until 
really prime lambs have sold as low as fis. per 8 lbs. For the 
most part the lambs are strong and healthy, and they come to 
the scale extremely well. The following return shows the total 
supplies of stock disposed of in the great Metropolitan market 
in the first six months of the present and five previous years : — 
Supplies of each Jtind of Stock Exhihifed and Sold during the first Six 
Months of the following Years: — 
1866. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
1860. 
1861. 
Beasts 
115,115 
112,309 
Ill ,.')92 
113,373 
114,702 
109,812 
Cows 
2,977 
2,882 
2,917 
2,977 
2,904 
3,005 
Sheep and Lambs 
G3G,030 
530,790 
58S,7.'i8 
668,702 
662,030 
604,650 
Calves 
6,125 
8,420 
8,878 
7,272 
9,515 
6,560 
Pigs 
15,344 
13,240 
13,096 
14,869 
14,201 
15,952 
The foregoing comparison shows that the aggregate supplies 
of beasts have fallen short of the five previous seasons ; but the 
deficiency in the number has been more than compensated by 
the prime and heavy condition in which the stock has made its 
appearance. In the first six months of the present year the dis- 
trict and Irish and Scotch arrivals have been as under, compared 
with five corresponding periods :— 
" District " Bidloch Supplies. 
1 1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
1860. 
1861. 
Northern Districts .. 
900 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 
4,700 
Eastern Districts 
51,700 
60,. 500 
66,890 
7,460 
68,520 
64,060 
Other parts of England 
13,850 
14,490 
14,5G0 
19,090 
21 ,420 
17,700 
10,008 
8,860 
8,456 
10,030 
5,0.33 
8,712 
3,400 
2,700 
4,820 
2,217 
1,477 
256 
Foreign 
7,830 
9,233 
5,649 
7,580 
9,058 
12 ,422 
The above statement exhibits a decrease of about 4000 beasts 
from the eastern districts, and about the same falling off in the 
arrivals from other parts of England. The receipts from Scot- 
land are about 3500 head in excess of those of I860. The show 
of foreign stock has considerably exceeded the five previous 
years. Ireland figures for a very poor number, viz. only 256 
head, against 1477 in 1860, 2217 in 1859, 4820 in 1858, 2700 
in 1857, and 3400 in 1856. The total importations of all kinds 
of stock from Ireland this year have been on a very moderate 
scale both as regards number and qualitv, and the bulk of them 
have been disposed of in the Liverpool, Manchester, and Bir- 
