Show IN NOT MUTTON ENOUGH nearly ono one n M yar pay imported train from Cunik cla an siu resting field for investigation ties lies in ill the diree direction tion of determining the relation or of mutton demand del lId anil and supply while i t may bo be true that a per capita consumption of one pound per month does docs not indicate that our people tire lire conspicuous as 13 mutton eaters it does prove that they mo ire so decidedly inclined in that direction as to eat cut all the good mutton they can call gat and a great deal mort more that is of a decidedly inferior quality they not only consumed all the act product of flo cocks acs ics within tho the limits of if III the united states but brit for a 1 con considerable portion of tile the past two t vo years have taken nearly a thousand sheep par ir diy daiy front from canada in III tho the face of such each facts who will venture tho the prediction that americans I 1 ou l not consume as largo largen n proportion of mutton as is du do their eaghish Jag liah cousins if they were equally fortunate in li iving their desire debiro for ii a really choice article met illet with a prompt supply tile the people ia of great britain consume trine each about two pounds of mutton per month to ao this thil in tho the united states state would malce make it ft lionia market fur double the number of sheep slaughtered would enliven tha ilia demand for well conditioned animals an aind 11 could not otherwise than tho the price at which they p 1 assed into tha hands of butchers inq unquestionably ties t tho the standard of domestic mutton has be bern n materially sid i L of late years for northis this credit is is i due to tho the enterprise of those who have aided in the of improved mutton bearin bearing bc arin animals ils and likewise to the ibl Vir gency of those who have bave insisted that sheep i was re rosse sed of possibilities fax far beyond whit what could be readied reached abron h wool alone it would woul li l I prove interesting if wo coull could determine dett to whit extent this fact afan of advanced standard is responsible for the slightly reduced reilo cuil agre gAta number of sheep in in the count country try which lias has been so frequently attribute I 1 to thrift legislation rf if tile lie knutton market each year absorbs one third the number of sheep disclosed by official enumerative and to this heavy draft be ba gilded the ravages Ti of and the tha depredation i of noxious animals not so much margin is as left for rapid addition to the aagre gate flock census as many might sup PO ic e V W hile no careful student sti of the tha situation will attempt thus to account for the temporary reduction followed by the present slow increase iacre ise in flock c n numbers 1 there is no room tor for questioning the fact that a 1 daily demand tor fur nearly coblio mutton carcasses cannot be met without seriously influencing tho the yearly sheep census breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette |