Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — FOOD FOR GREAT BRITAIN. [ARTICLE]

FOOD FOR GREAT BRITAIN.

Quantity and Value of Products Kiported from the United States. During th« nine months ended oa the 30th of September last there were shipped from the United States to Great Britain the following quantity and value of food products: Beef cattle, 304.179 head $25,401.198 Sheep, 148,318 head 1.Q5fi3i04 Dressed beef, 210,703,080 pounds. 1ii,5:;ff487 Halted beef, 13,374,410 pound* . .. 718*192 Bacon, 323,030,850 pounds 23,013J0S Haia, 108,873,454 pounds 10,50^557 Fresh and *alt pork, 17,974,174 pound* .... 1.01T.9f,fi Lanl, 144,800,303 pounds 7,33<i,1M)U Imitation lard and butter, 5,597,516 pounds 342^21 Butter, 18,023,021 pounds 2,G,5L33G Cheese. 37.600,110 pounds 3,421724 Without including the cattle and sheep, tliia shows that we have furnished our British contains 881,830.104 pounds of animal food during the first nine months of the present year, and that they have paid us $95,311,848 for the same. This is at the rate of forty-four (rounds per capita a year, or about five pounds a mouth lor every man, woman nnd child in G*eat Britain. The British statistics show that the average animal consumption of provirion* i* B® pounds per capita. If the live cattle and sheet) were included it would undoubtedly raise the average to rixty-three pwtnrds per capita a yea *, or •even pound* a month.