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Facts and Observations. 
The Meat Supply of the United Kingdom. — The 
live-stock census in 1870 gave us 9,235,052 cattle of all 
ages, S2,786,78S sheep of all ages, and 3,65 0,730 pigs of all 
ages, representing, according to the estimate adopted, a pro- 
duction of 659,646 tons of beef and veal, 409,834 tons of 
mutton and lamb, and 151,145 tons of pork and bacon, or a 
total of 1,220,625 tons of meat. 
The imports in 1870 were 202,172 cattle and calves, 
669,905 sheep and lambs, and 95,624 pigs; or, in other 
words, 45,127 tons of beef and veal, 14,953 tons of mutton 
and lamb, and 3842 tons of pork and bacon, making a total 
live importation of 63,922 tons. The dead, salted, and pre- 
served meat received from abroad in the same year was 
57, 743 tons. 
Thus the meat supply of the United Kingdom last year 
amounted to 1,342,290 tons (including 5825 tons of British 
and Irish beef, pork, bacon, and hams, and 1147 tons of 
foreign and colonial bacon and hams exported), of which 
63,922 tons, or 4f per cent., were imported as live animals.-— 
Chamber of Agriculture Journal . 
Importation of Preserved Meat from Australia. — 
The value of the imports of Australian preserved meat 
during the past year has, it is said, reached the amount of 
£200,000, being an enormous increase over that of 1869, 
when meat to the value of something over £80,000 was im- 
ported. It is stated that in 1866 only £321 worth reached 
this country, this being the first year that any satisfactory 
shipments were made. Only about one fourth of the meat 
consists of beef, the rest being mutton. Unfortunately, we 
have no means of ascertaining how much preserved meat has 
been disposed of for consumption, or how much remains in 
stock ; nor have we any information as to the quantity which 
has been found unfitted for food. 
Decrease of Permanent Pasture. — According to the 
agricultural returns of Great Britain, 1870, a decrease of per- 
manent pasture was found to have taken place in England, as 
compared with 1869, to the extent of upwards of 400,000 
acres ; the county of Rutland being the only one in which 
any increase existed. In Wales a decrease of about 100,000 
acres, and in Scotland of 157,000, had taken place. A 
slight increase existed in the counties of Aberdeen, Berwick, 
Fife, Forfar, Haddington, Nairn, and Orkney. With these 
