496 CATTLE AXD DAIRY FARMING. 



In connection with this movement it is of interest to take note of the 

 information conveyed through English statistical returns of the butter 

 imports into that Kingdom during the same period from the chief 

 butter-exporting lands, viz, the United States, Uelgium, France, and 

 Holland. 



Jt will be sullicient here to give these import returns for the year 

 1883, which were of the following nature, viz: 



From Quantity. Valu 



Cu-fg. 



Tnit t-<l Statos 1 -!'J. 1 1;:: $2, 73.'{, OUU 



In ]_ .I.: 1 11 5if. tins 1, '.'Tft, 000 



Fi aiict- ."o;;. L'l'i) , I'J, C.Mt, ot'O 



Holland ^, -Co i "20, 4'M, OuO 



Upon critical investigation, however, of the returns for previous 

 years, it is seen that tiie butter exports from the United States have 

 been subjected to considerable lluetuatinns: that whilst these exports in 

 1809 only amounted 17,203 cwts., they had in iS70 reached up to 118,1.'$! 

 cwts., continuing still on the increase for some years, when in 1870 

 they had attained their maximum point of 301, 0,~vi cwts. From that 

 date they have apparently been on the decline until in 1882 they are 

 only seen to amount to 51.240 cwts., again rising, however, in 1883, to 

 120,103 cwts. The imports from Belgium are likewise seen to have 

 been retrograding. They would, appear to have reached their highest 

 stage at the close of the sixth decade to the commencement of the 

 seventh, when, in 1871, the imports from that country are credited with 

 in,.")3i) cwts. All the subsequent years show a gradual decline, and at 

 the present day they ligurc for little more than one-half of the amount 

 attained in 1871. 



The butter exports from France to Great F.ritain have, on the other 

 hand, been maintained without any perceptible changes, whilst the ex- 

 ports from Holland are found to have met with a very considerable in- 

 crease; but this rapid increase is more apparent than real. It is with- 

 out doubt in great measure due to the very large production and export 

 from that country in the latter years of spurious butter, and which in 

 the Fnglish ret urns are not classed under a distinct rubric, but are indis- 

 criminately mixed up with real butter: thus, whilst the exports from 

 Holland in 1872 were only 209,001 cwts.. in the year 1883 they iignre 

 for the large amount of 988,200 cwls. As before mentioned this great 

 increase is chielly made up by the heavy exports of butterine, &c. 



In instituting a comparison between the exports from Denmark for 

 the year 1883, with those from (he, other previously mentioned lands, 

 it. will be seen that the exports from this Kingdom are, nearly three; 

 times as large as the exports from the United States, nearly seven 

 times as large as those from Belgium, and are only interior to those 

 from France and 1 lolland. 



It is at the same time of interest to cxamin" the estimated values 

 which are placed upon (he butler from the different countries in the 

 Fnglish statistical ta!>!e>, these.valuations in the returns for the year 

 1883 being denoted as follows, viz : 



Per rwt. 



Danish ImttiT $21) . r >i) 



l-'n-neh hut ter 2."> 00 



j'el^ian I ut ter 25 00 



I'n i fed States l)ii tier 22 . r >0 



Duteh l>utt r .. 20 00 



