Animal products; . sufficient quantity, it would be much in demandfor manufacturing uses from its silky character. Our Meat Supply from Cattle.—The enhanced consump-tion of butchers meat here, and the advance in price, have be-come important considerations, and more especially as to ourfuture adequate supply; the graziers being unable to meet theincreasing demand. The larger consumption arises from twocauses, which, in all probability, will continue to operate, namely,the increase of our population, at the rate of 1000 per day, and OUR MEAT SUPPLY. 107 the improvement in the social condition o
Animal products; . sufficient quantity, it would be much in demandfor manufacturing uses from its silky character. Our Meat Supply from Cattle.—The enhanced consump-tion of butchers meat here, and the advance in price, have be-come important considerations, and more especially as to ourfuture adequate supply; the graziers being unable to meet theincreasing demand. The larger consumption arises from twocauses, which, in all probability, will continue to operate, namely,the increase of our population, at the rate of 1000 per day, and OUR MEAT SUPPLY. 107 the improvement in the social condition of the operative classes,consequent upon the enormous extension of commerce and manu-factures, and the abundant employment created by railways,building operations, and other public works. For the daily supply of the metropolis about 4,500 live beastsare sent to the London market; 300 tons of dead meat come byrailway from the North; and the amount sold daily in the Metro-politan Dead Meat Market alone is 500 EGERLAND COW. BOHEMIA. Official returns showed that the annual consumption of meat inthe kingdom in 1870 was about 96 lbs. per head; this, at thewholesale price of Sd. per pound, amounted to 64s. for each person,and for the entire population about ^99,000,000. Mr. H. S. Thompson in the Journal of the Royal AgriculturalSociety, recently estimated the average consumption of meat byeach person in the United Kingdom at 103 lbs. per annum; forin 1871, 31,700,000 people consumed about 1,500,000 is equal to a demand for 1,300 head of cattle, sheep, andpigs every day. In 1872 the average consumption of meat had io8 OUR MEAT SUPPLY. risen to 108 lbs. per head. Upwards of ^220,000,000 is said tobe invested in live stock in Great Britain and Ireland. The number of cattle and calves in the United Kingdom in1875 was 10:162,787. Of these, two-sevenths, or about 3,000,000,.are supposed to be annually slaughtered, the average weight perhead all round (for both cattle and c
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