Note 332n — INDEX
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[710] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1882), p. 449.
[711] See Returns of the Board of Agriculture.
[712] The imports from Russia were that year exceptionally small.
[713] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (1852), p. 274.
[714] In 1860 the number of live cattle imported was 104,569; in 1897, 618,321; in 1907, 472,015.
[715] In 1860 the quantity of beef imported was 283,332 cwt.; in 1907, 6,033,736 cwt.
[716] See above.
[717] Supra, p. 38.
[718] Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, i. 176, 192; Hundred Rolls, i. 405, 414.
[719] Burnley, History of Wool, p. 65.
[720] Ibid. p. 70.
[721] Cf. supra, p. 172.
[722] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, i. 222.
[723] See above.
[724] Smith, Memoirs of Wool, ii. 252.
[725] McPherson, Annals of Commerce, iii. 156.
[726] McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary, p. 1431. For imports see Appendix, p. 354.
[727] Of which 6,000,000 lb. came from Spain. The first Spanish Merino sheep were introduced into Australia in 1797. See Cunningham, Industry and Commerce, ii. 538, and cf. below.
[728] R.A.S.E. Journal (1890), p. 29.
[729] Board of Agriculture Returns (1907), p. 187.
[730] Cf. Appendix IV.
[731] In 1907 the average wheat crop was 33.96 bushels per acre in England and 39.18 in Scotland. The average yield per acre of wheat in Holland is 34.1 bushels; Belgium, 34; Germany, 30.3; Denmark, 28.2 France, 197.
[732] The total number of sheep in Great Britain in 1877 was 28,161,164; in 1907, 26,115,455. In 1688 Youatt estimates it at 12,000,000; In 1741, 17,000,000; in 1800 26,000,000; in 1830 32,000,000.
[733] Unfortunately the class 50 acres and under at this time included holdings under one acre, so that it is useless for the comparison of the number of small holdings at the two dates, for in 1907 none appear under one acre.