§ Lieut.-Colonel WILLEYasked the Ministry of Food the estimated present cattle and sheep population of the Empire as against the rest of the world?
Sir A. BOSCAWENIn many countries statistics of livestock are not collected annually, and in others such figures as are available are not at all recent, while for many countries there are no data at all. But, adding together the totals, at the latest available date for each country, where any figure can be given, it would seem that there are some 130 million cattle in the British Empire and 240 million in the rest of the civilized world; and some 190 million sheep in the British Empire and 280 million in the rest of the world.