480 
Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat 
The above figures represent the following totals — say in car- 
casses : — 
Beef. Mutton and Lamb. Veal. Pork. 
281,491 1,548,751 25,706 261,510 
For country consumption, and for the stock turned out, including 
grazing purposes, we may deduct from these figures 18,000 beasts 
and 113,000 sheep ; hence, it follows that 263,391 carcasses of 
beef, 1,435,751 of mutton and lamb, 25,706 of veal, and 261,510 
of pork supplied the consumptive demand in the metropolis. 
In the minor stock it will be seen that we have made no 
deduction — the supplies exhibited having been almost wholly 
taken by the London butchers. The annexed return shows the 
total numbers of beasts exhibited in the Metropolitan market in 
a series of years : — 
1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 
213,507 240,195 237,143 243,760 252,137 
1851. 1852. 1853. 1854. 1855. 
261,684 273,519 290,239 282,639 272,945 
1856. 1857. 1858. 1859. 
273,523 250,224 258,710 256,571 
Demand xsd Value dueixg the Past Year. 
Compared with several previous years, the past has proved a 
good season for stock from nearly all sources of supply, and 
prices have continued high, though not in advance of either 1858 
or 1857. The Northern districts furnished 68,470 beasts, against 
7] ,260 in 1858, and 81,600 in 1857. The number from Norfolk, 
Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire was a full average one ; but 
from other parts of England the receipts were very large. The 
imports from abroad were about 12,000 head less than in 1854. 
As regards sheep, it will be seen that a larger number was 
brought forward last year than in any year since 1854 — the 
total supply having amounted to 1.462,036 head, against 
1,335,597 in 1858, and 1,238,204 in 1857. 
Supplies of each kind of Stock Exhibited and Sold during the following 
Years : — 
1854. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
Sheep and Lambs 
Pigs 
257,167 
6,227 
1,498,525 
1 24,853! 
1 34,280' 
240,306 252,624 2.50,224 
5,625 5,841; 5,630! 
1,423,418 1,335,4741,238,204 
23,420 20,395i 23,426^ 
38,940 34,077' 28,232 
258,710 
6,054 
1,335,597 
24,164i 
32,646 
256,571 
6,007 
1,462,036 
19,558 
30,999 
