The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The output of livestock products

Collection:: Economics Books

1,380,000 in the five pre-war years to 1,225,000 in the last five years. This reduction is in part due to the fact that during these post-war years farmers have been steadily increasing their dairy herds at the expense of beef production. It is also partly due to increased slaughter of animals before they attain the age of one year. The number of calves slaughtered annually has increased from 536,000 to 785,000 between the pre-war and the post-war quinquennial periods, largely owing to the increased dairy herds and consequently increased births, but also to a larger proportion being slaughtered as calves, instead of being kept until they become beef cattle. In spite of a decline of about 11 Ibs. per head in the average carcase weight of calves between the pre-war and post-war periods the production of veal in England and Wales is estimated to have increased by about 140,000 cwt. per annum, or about 30 per cent. As regards mutton and lamb, the average annual production Aas fallen by 1,470,000 cwt., or about 38 per cent., as compared with pre-war, of which about 7 per cent. is due to a reduction in the average weight of the carcase, while the remainder of the decline is caused largely by the reduction in sheep flocks, resulting in fewer births and a smaller potential meat supply. At the sameé time it should be noted that during the past five years the number of sheep in England and Wales has increased by 2,590,000, - nearly one-half of the increase being in ewes for breeding. This process of rebuilding the flocks must result in increased production of mutton in subsequent years. The production of pigmeat varies considerably, but on the average there is little difference between the pre-war and post- war periods. But here, again, the pig population increased by 650,000, or over 32% per cent., between 1920 and 1925. In the year 1924-25 the production of pigmeat was abnormally high owing to the fact that the number of pigs in June, 1924, reached the very high figure of nearly 3% million, while there was a reduction of 580.000 by the following June, If the estimated weight of the meat of various kinds is added together then the average production in the five years 1908-09 to 1912-13 was 17,593,000 cwt., while the average production n the five years 1920-21 to 1924-25 was 14,912,000 cwt.—a, fall of 15 per cent, During this period the population of the country was increasing so that the supply per head of English meat of one kind or another fell from 55 Ibs. per head in the earlier period to 44 lbs. per head in the past five years—a reduction of 20 per cent. This ig q very striking decline, particularly when the potentialities of the home market are taken into account. More favourable results would, it is true, be obtained by taking the single year 1924-25, but, as explained above, this was an ex- ceptional year as regards the production of pigmeat. There has,

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