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Show Canadians Rival Beef Eaters of Old England Montreal. Canadians bid fair to rival the beef eaters of old England. Eng-land. The average inhabitant of the Dominion Do-minion consumes his weight in beef every 27 . months, it is disclosed In a bulletin just made public here by the department of colonization and development of the Canadian Pacific railway. Besides the beef he swallows, the average man eats 82.48 pounds of pork annually, 6.40 pounds of lamb and mutton, and 10.12 pounds of poultry. "Consumption of moat In Canada Can-ada this year is expected to exceed ex-ceed 150 pounds per capita," the bulletin states. "This significant increase In the amount of meat eaten may be traced to the increased in-creased importance of the dominion domin-ion as a meat-raising country. l-atest available statistics on live stock holdings of the world show Canada as the fifth cattV -producing nation of the globe, and the seventh from the top in the production produc-tion of swine, and the fifteenth In line in the raising of sheep. In beef cattle possession only Russia, the United States, France and South Africa show a greater number." num-ber." Native Canadian cattle provide 00 per cent of the beef eaten in the Dominion at the present time, the bulletin states, and this figure is expected to be raised to 100 p?r cent in the near future. |
