STOCK BREEDING IN GREAT BRITAIN.
English journals are despondent over the future of stock breeding in Great Britain. The journal of the Royal Agricultural Society says in 1857 the value of animal food and cereal grains imported was £35,000,000. In 1886 it had risen to £110,000,000. In 1877 the number of live stock of various kinds was-of horses, 2,834,000 ; cattle, 0,693,000 : sheep, 32,157,000 ; pigs, 3,964,000. Regarding the relative value of home grown and foreign animals consumed, we quote : Butchers' meat and flesh of swine, home grown, £87,000,000; foreign, £22,050,000; cheese and butter, home, £13,500,000; foreign, £14,000,000. The total extent of the United Kingdom is 76,300,000 acres, which 26,300,000 are in mountain pasture and waste, and 50,000,000 in crops, meadows, permanent pasture, and woods and forests.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 104, 10 March 1879, Page 2
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125STOCK BREEDING IN GREAT BRITAIN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 104, 10 March 1879, Page 2
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