HOLLAND. 



507 



from Gravesend to New York are as follows, exclusive of charges for 

 attendance and food en route : 



Per bead. 



Full grown cattlo £6 



Yearlings 5 



Calves 4 



The expense for attendance on cattle en route is ordinarily not very 

 much, especially in cases of large shipments, as three or four persons 

 are said to be sufQcient to take proper care of a hundred or more head 

 of cattle. 



Besides, it would appear that suitable parties, farmers, or farmers' 

 sous can almost alway be tbund amongst intending emigrants who for 

 a reasonable, small sum of money are willing and pleased to undertake 

 the attendance and care of the cattle, and who in such cases have no 

 passage money to pay, that being included in the freight-charge for 

 the stock. 



Food, hay, and straw is usually provided by the owner or shipper of 

 the cattle; the cost varies and cannot be stated precisely, bub no extra 

 charge is made for carrying such supplies. 



When cattle are shipped via the port of Antwerp they are, as a rule, 

 taken there by rail from Amsterdam or Eotterdam. 



The railway freight rates are at present as follows, viz : 



Description. 



From' Am- 

 sterdam. 



From Kot- 

 terdam. 



Two oxen, cows, or heifers 



One to live calves 



Six oxen, cows, or lieilers . 

 Ten calves 



Francs. 

 21. .57 

 21.57 

 32. 3S 

 32. 3S 



FrancE. 

 14.88 

 14.88 

 22. 33 

 22. 33 



In chartering a whole car, and if not more than IC lull-grown animals 

 and 20 calves are put in, the charge is 43.14 francs from Amsterdam 

 and 29.76 francs from Eotterdam. 



If a larger number of cattle are taken in a car, as is at the option of 

 the shipper, the price for a car is then raised 25 per cent. 



The present regular ocean freight rates for shipping cattle from Ant- 

 werp to Now York or Boston are, as I am informed by Antwerp ship- 

 brokers and agents, as follows (inclusive of food and water) : 



Cow £8 



Yearling - 7 



Calf 



Attendance en route 4s. per head. 



In shipments of 100 to 200 head at a time better arrangements, they 

 say, can be made. 



