BRITISH MEAT SUPPLY.
The following table, prepared by the Board of Trade, gives the number ,of cattle, sheep, and pigs per 1000 of population in the more important stockproducing countries Of the Empire in 1901 and 1911:
Country. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. .- . ■""''"■ : "'- " ♦' 1901. 1911. 190i. 1911. 1901. 1911 United Kingdom 276 -262 741 672 82 94 Australia . 2,250 . 2,655 19,089 20,876, 247 249 Canada .. ;. 1,038 ' ;937 467 305/ 438 465 211298 76 95 . —-.. ..... ;' ' New Zealand .. .. 1,762 2,0.04 26,175 23,806 290 34& South Africa— _ ', % Cape of Goad Hope '. 811 1,059 4,904 6,680 160 197 601 382 603 1,272 68 92 Oraiige Free State 939 '#*%■ 751 16,264 159 308 . Transvaal . • '■ ■" 43 6 7 v < ; 79#; * :607 2,026 126 180
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 76, 6 May 1914, Page 11
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116BRITISH MEAT SUPPLY. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 76, 6 May 1914, Page 11
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