. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . Although cattle, sheep, pigs andhorses are all reared in large numbers, the home suppliesof meat, hides, dairy produce, mutton, wool, bacon andhorses have to be supplemented by large cattle are most numerous sheep are usually leastso, except in such areas as really suit neither, and whereneither are found in very large numbers, the High-lands of Scotland. Fig. 24 shows that there is practicallyno overlapping of those areas where there are over 200cattle per 1,000 acres, with those supporting over 600s
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . Although cattle, sheep, pigs andhorses are all reared in large numbers, the home suppliesof meat, hides, dairy produce, mutton, wool, bacon andhorses have to be supplemented by large cattle are most numerous sheep are usually leastso, except in such areas as really suit neither, and whereneither are found in very large numbers, the High-lands of Scotland. Fig. 24 shows that there is practicallyno overlapping of those areas where there are over 200cattle per 1,000 acres, with those supporting over 600sheep per 1,000 acres. The reasons for this are that therichest pastures arc best suited for dairy cattle, whilstsheep thrive best on the drier, poorer mountain pasturesof the west and on the porous chalk and limestone hillsof eastern England, where they are less liable to suffer GICNKRAL rilVSICAL CONDITIONS 65 from foot-rot. The best cattle pastures are the centralplain of Ireland, the western plains of Devon, Somerset,Hereford, Wales, Lancashire, Cheshire and the. over200CaWepertQOOacres THE MAPPA LONDOH Fig. 24.—The Distribution of Cattle and Sheep. English midlands. In all these places the rainfall \sfairly heavy and supports rich grass. Hence we havethe famous cheeses of Cheshire, the notedIrish butter and Devonshire cream, and the extensiveboot and shoe industries of towns like Northampton and €i6 THE BRITISH ISLES Leicester. Sheep are l^argely reared on the poorerpastures of the southern uplands of Scotland, the High-lands of Wales, and the oolitic and chalk scarplands ofthe E. and of Great Britain. In the middle agesBritain exported most of her wool to Flanders, butto-day she has to supplement her home supply byimporting wool from Australia, New Zealand, SouthAfrica and Argentina. Pigs are chiefly found in those areas noted for therearing of cattle. The reason for this is that they arelargely fed on skimmed milk and potatoes. Ireland
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