WHAT THE OLD COUNTRY CAN DO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 10

WHAT THE OLD COUNTRY CAN DO.

■ " REMARKABLE FIGURES. ' On studying Messrs. Weddell and Co.'s Annual Keview of the Meat-Trado - one is at once etruck, says Captain.Pearse, with the remarkablo figures relating to the meat supply of Great Britain. Australians and New Zealanders are prone to think that they are keeping the poor benighted Britisner alive, but facts are facts, and all we do towards feeding Great Britain is practically harmless. Britain, which many Australians believe is a manufacturing conutry only, and which Radical papers call a country of estates and deer parks, staggers ono in" the immensity of her farming and stock output. In comparison Australia is but a child. Wβ.will first take beef. Great Britain from her own farms supplies 787,500 tons of her requirements. The rest of the world supplies only 410,343 tons, in which Australasia has a very email share indeed. . With mutton and lamb, Great Britain herself finds 341,100 tons, against the whole world's deliveries -of 238,000 tons, most of which comes from Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. The" "little" home country possesses 11,760,678 cattle and 31,838,833 sheep, and produces as much wheat,, sixty times as much barley, and thirteen times as much oats as tho whole of Australia