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CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



ARGENTINE EXPORTS OP CATTLE PRODUCTS. 



The importance of the cattle industry, in a commercial point of view, 

 will appear from the custom-house siatistics, since the entire product, 

 after providing for a meager home consumption, iinds a market abroad. 

 According to those returns, the exports of the products of horned 

 cattle stand for about one-third, while the exports of the sheep prod- 

 ucts stand for about one-half of the entire shipments abroad. To be 

 more exact, it appears that of the total exports last year, 56.5 per cent, 

 were wool and sheep-skins, 32.8 per cent, were the products of horned 

 cattle, while only 11.2 per cent, were agricultural, mineral, forest, and 

 manufactured products. The exports of the total pastoral industry, 

 compared with all other exports, for the last seven years are shown in 

 the following table, compiled from ofBcial sources : * 



Exports from the Argentine Bepuilicfrom 1876 to 1882. 



As a matter pf especial interest in connection with the cattle industry, 

 I give below the shipments separately of each article produced during 

 the last seven years, as taken from the custom-house returns : 



Exports of cattle products from 1876 to 1882. 



Articles. 



Cowhides No. 



Dried and jerked beef. . . kilos . 



Bones and bone-ash do . 



Horns do. 



Hide-cuttius:s do. 



Animal oils do. 



Animals on the hoof No . 



Salted beef kilos. 



Animal-black do. 



Artificial ^ano : do . 



Dried blood do. 



1876. 



2, 324, 



29, 6(6, 



33, 234, 



8,056, 



1, 031, 



216, 



109, 



4, 



1877. 



I, 488, 



1, 732, 



I, 304, 



, 862, 



,122, 



891, 



169, 



143, 



, 156, 



1678. 



238, 802 



600, 293 



231,010 



998, 454 



880, 204 



815, 592 



86, 308 



110, 938 



204, 540 



55, 560 



42,946 



I, 336, 

 1, 336, 

 1, 430, 

 I, 706, 

 .998, 

 422, 

 422, 



I, leo] 



852, 

 187, 



1880. 



791, 

 116, 

 692, 

 966, 

 242, 

 300, 

 52, 



1881. 



299 2,192, 

 479,22,412, 

 477 34, 763, 

 4161 2, 903, 



3, 591, 



1,030 



781, 



199, 



84, 



18, 



1, 082, 



124, 



453, 



1882. 



2,945,427 



26,966,613 



28,212,608 



1, 410, 983 



879, 183 



542,602 



53,995 



1, 936, 770 



1,111,946 



92,547 



I would State that there is an export duty on all the above articles of 

 7 per cent, on the value, except salted beef, animal-black, artificial guano 

 and dried blood, which are free of duty; and that all horned cattle ex- 

 ported from the country pay a duty of 75 cents per head. 



Of the above exports it appears from the customhouse returns that 

 about one-third of the hides go to the United States, the rest to Eng- 

 land, France, Spain, Belgium, &c. ; that the jerked and dried beef goes 

 principally to Brazil, Cuba, and Spain ; thattwo-t ttirds of the bones and 

 'EstadiaUoaa ojmales de la £epv,Uioa jirgentina, 1876-1882. 



