134 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. 



Article. Year. Quantity. Value. 



Lbs. ' i 



^l-^'ins 191 1 31.536.507 840,979 



1912 37,241,136 1,020.127 



1913 41,351,091 1,215,547 



1914 38,294,917 1,023,443 



1915 45.547.242 1,099,849 



Ostrich Feathers .. .. 191 1 826,992 2,253,140 



19 1 2 999,704 2,609,638 



1913 1.023,307 2,953,587 



1914 735.325 1,342,7^7 



191 5 948,945 7\Z^11^ 



Muids. 



Mealies 191 1 1,016,443 402,680 



19 1 2 >^^2,-]^,2 443.492 



1913 114.723 65,169 



1914 1,100,156 438,455 



191 5 1.493.826 631,646 



Packages. 



Fruit, Fresh 191 1 234,208 45.487 



1912 296,963 54,668 



1913 232,959 51,858 



1914 475.308 94.245 



191 5 240,269 63,967 



Lbs. 



Wattle Bark 191 1 111,205,265 289,557 



1912 118,219,023 283,060 



1913 145.717.738 309.328 



1914 130,216,826 286,399 



1915 89,661,464 195.244 



Shortage of shipping accommodation accounted for the de- 

 crease in the exportation of fresh fruit and of wattle bark. This 

 disability did not apply to the other products ; moreover, as 

 regards fruit, the 191 5 season was an unfavourable one. The 

 ostrich feather trade, as is well known, is in the throes of de- 

 pression ; while the increase in the skin export trade has to be 

 attributed to a very severe drought. 



The best export year was 191 3. when the value of these 

 products totalled £11,985,969. The value for 1915 was 

 £9,378,089. It will l)c seen that, witli tlic exception of maize, 

 the year 1915 was not as successful as an earlier one so far as 

 exports were concerned. Imports of agricultural products, how- 

 ever, exclusive of spirits and fruit (ciiiefly dried) show a very 

 appreciable decline in 191 5 as compared with any year in the 

 preceding four. This decline, at pre-war values, can be put 

 down at the sum of £516,000. The import figures for the five 

 years 191 1 to 1915 are as follows: — 



