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Management of Grass Land. 
42 per cent, of the 31,416,829 sheep and lambs recorded 
= 13,195,068 which, at 60 lbs. each, would yield 353,439 tons 
of mutton and lamb. And lastly, 4,136,903 pigs, at 116 per 
cent = 4,798,807, which, multiplied by 134, gives 287,071 tons 
of pork and bacon. These figures give v 
Beef and veal 
Mutton and lamb .. .. 
I'oi k and bacon 
Produce of meat from homebred flocks andi 
herds in 1871 
Produce of meat from imported flocks and herds i 
in 1871 (see p. 155) 
Imported jirovisions, fresh, salted, or otherwise 
preserved (see Board of Trade returns for 
J 871) , 
1'otal supply of meat, home and foreign, in 1871 
The same calculation applied to the returns for 1870 shows 
that 1,240,603 tons of meat were supplied by our home-bred 
cattle, sheep, and pigs, in that year. Similarly the imported 
animals in 1870 furnished 66,556 tons, and the imported pro- 
visions of all sorts — fresh, salted, and otherwise preserved — 
57,743 tons. 
1870. 
1871. 
Increase. 
Proportion of 
Increase. 
From Homebred Auimals 
, , Imported Animals 
, , Imported Provisions 
Tons. 
1,240,603 
66,.'i56 
57,743 
Tons. 
1 ,266,478 
81,578 
99,125 
Tons. 
25,875 
15,022 
41,382 
= 31-44 
= 18-27 
= 50-29 
1,364,902 
1,447,181 
82,279 
100 
Comparing these with the figures for 1871, we find that, in 
the latter year, there was an increase in the supply of meat from 
all sources of 82,279 tons, of which nearly one-half was in the 
form of salted or preserved meat, the quantity of fjesh meat 
imported being small. It also appears that, even under the 
stimulus of extraordinarily high prices, there was little elasticity 
in the import trade, so far as live animals were concerned ; the 
importations in 1871 being very little in excess of those in 1866, 
when there were 11,172 head of cattle and 11,749 pigs less, but 
54,081 more sheep imported than in the first-named year. 
An elaborate and very valuable article on this subject appeared 
in the '(Chamber of Agriculture Journal' of May 29, 1871, 
which, unfortunately, did not come into my hands until after the 
a total of 
Tons. Per cent. 
625,968 
353,439 
287,071 
1,266,478 =87-51 
81,578 = 5-64 
99,125 = 6-85 
1,447,181 100 
