LONDON’S MEAT SUPPLY.
Interesting details about London’s annual meat bill, which, as shown by supplies to the Central Markets, reached a value of £36,500,000 last year, are contained in the report of the clerk and supcrdintendent of the Smithfield Markets. Last year was a record for the markets, the total supplies (including poultry and provisions) amounting to 480,520 tons, which exceeded anything hitherto reached in the market. Tfc is estimated that the live stock killed to furnish this food consisted °f : —BOO,OOO bullocks, 5,500,000 sheep, 900,000 pigs. The total value of all commodities of £36,500,000 was in excess of the figure for the previous year by £1,500,000, this being attributed to the increase in supplies and the wholesale values of all classes of produce, except fresli-killed mutton and pork. One fact which emerges is that London’s taste for mutton is decreasing at the expense of beef. Of the total supplies beef formed 55.2 per cent., mutton 27.8, and pork and bacon 10.5. In 1913 the ratio of mutton to beef was 3.9 per cent higher.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 6
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175LONDON’S MEAT SUPPLY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 6
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