72 LUCERNE CULTURE. 



PORTS OF ENTRY. 



The total quantity of lucerne imported into British South 

 Africa during 1907 through the different coastal States was as 

 under : 



Cape Colony 103 



Natal 11,016 



Delagoa Bay 



Beira 12 



11,131 

 Total for 1906 ... 16,235 



In the classified list of exports through the different coastal. 

 States, lucerne is not separately specified. 



CAPE IMPORTS OF LUCERNE. 



In the second Annual Statement of the Trade and Shipping of 

 the Colonies and Territories forming the S. A. Customs Union/we 

 find the following statement of the trade in lucerne, extracted from, 

 the Customs Returns I- 

 IMPORTS FROM OVERSEA.. 



1907- 1906. 

 From V.ilue. Value. 



New South Wales 22 



South Australia 29 



France 35 



Argentine 46 349 



103 378 

 South African Produce ' 7 



110 378 



This shows that as far as the Cape is concerned there is no- 

 longer any trade worth speaking of in importing lucerne, the total 

 imports being less than 40 tons weight last year and less than 115 

 tons in the previous year. 



But comparing the weights given with the values, we find the 

 declared value of the lucerne works out as under, per 100 Ibs. : 



s. d. 



New South Wales, 1907 ... 11 



Argentine, 1907 ... 27 



1906 ... 32 



South Australia, 1906 ... 56 



We have taken our figures as they appear classified under 

 Fodder and Forage, but the great differences in value lead us to 

 infer that lucerne seed has been wrongly included in some cases- 



