Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    dent of supplies from foreign countries, as the following figures of our imports will show :— Year. From Australia. South Africa. India. Total Imports from all Countries. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 1831 2,493,000 48,000 31,652,000 1841 12,399,000 1,080,000 3,009,000 56,1 So, 000 1S51 41,800,000 5,817,000 4,550,000 83,311,000 1861 68,506,000 18,676,000 19,161,000 144,067,000 1871 182,710,000 32,972,000 18,153,000 319,385,000 187s 238,631,716 44,112,213 22,680,126 360,903,270 British Breeds.—England has for a long period been cele- TWO-YEAR OLD SOUTHDOWN, SHOWN AT TAUNTON, 1875. brated for her sheep. The leading and most improved short- wooUed breed is the small brown-faced Southdown, chiefly