WORLD'S CATTLE PRODUCTION
LIVE STOCK FIGUKES. Cattle- h?.ve increased in Australasia .durin'gl the past two years by .1.000.0C0 !hcad; in Russia by I,soo,ooo.'head; and decreased in Canada and the United States" by 1,000,000 head. Tho stock of cattle from the two last-named countries is at present about 79.000,000 head. The population is how abont 100,000,000, and the annual consumption of beef involves the slaughter of about 18,500.000 head, so that the quantity available for export is -comparatively small.
rho r Republics o£ Argentine' and Uruguay claim to have live stock "agijrogating 38,000,000 Lead of cattle and 94,000,000 sheep. Both States continue to export a large amount of. meat. The combined population of these southern States, is well under 10,000,000. . The annual increase of cattle averages about 20 per cent. It is from these southern Republics that the meat combines of the United States draw the bulk of the supplies which they ship to the United Kingdom.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 8
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156WORLD'S CATTLE PRODUCTION Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 8
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