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Feeding Stuffs and Fertilisers. [april, 



In the issue of this Journal for last month (p. 1236), 

 the import trade of this country in regard to food products 

 was briefly reviewed. The improved 



Imports and Exports situation in the feeding stuffs and fertilisers 

 of Feeding Stuffs _ , , . , ,? £ ,. - A 



and Fertilisers market is also a matter of direct concern 

 to the British farmer, and the figures 

 for 1 91 9 have a particular interest as showing the very sub- 

 stantial recovery which has been made. Imports show an 

 increase in the case of every feeding stuff, and every fertiliser 

 except phosphate of lime and rock phosphate, while exports 

 of fertilisers increased to the extent of 155 per cent, compared 

 with 1 91 8. 



Feeding Stuffs. — The improvement in the feeding stuffs situation 

 is well borne out by the figures in the following table : — 



Imports of Feeding Stuffs. 



Description. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



1919. 



1918. 



1913. 



1919. 



1918. 



1913- 













£ 



£ 



Cotton seed tons 



461,598 



337,490 



615,332 



9,773.600 



6,469,762 



4,648,617 



Flax seed or 















linseed . . qr. 



2,764,559 



1,309,631 



3,274,062 



20,662,835 



8,158,170 



7,195,399 



Rape seed . . ,, 



397,363 



292,442 



265,560 



2,707,832 



1,662,008 



531,725 



Soya beans .. tons 



61,565 





76,452 



1,640,639 





635,747 



Nuts and Kernels 













for expressing 















oil 



499,856 



443,4H 



8r,i20 



19,411,392 



12,696,553 



1,933,052 



Oil seed cake cwt. 



278,274 



10,828 



406,700 



5,821,558 



210,034 



2,539,892 



Cotton seed came principally from Egypt, linseed from British East 

 Indies and the Argentine, and rape seed from British East India. 



Fertilisers. — Besides her imports the United Kingdom carried on 

 before the War an export trade which in 191 3 totalled over 700,000 

 tons, and £5,745,000 in value. The War, as might be expected, caused 

 a reduction in the quantity exported, which diminished in 191 8 to 60,089 

 tons. An increase to 153,064 tons, has, however, taken place during 

 1 91 9. In regard to imports, there is an increase in the quantity of all 

 fertilisers imported except phosphate of lime and rock phosphate. The 

 quantities and values imported and exported during 191 9, 191 8, and 

 1 91 3 are given in the two tables hereunder : — 



Imports of Manures for Home Consumption. 



Description. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



1919. 



1918. 



1913. 



1919. 



1918. 



1913. 





tons. 



tons. 



tons. 



£ 



£ 



£ 





1,697 





5i,i33 



10,640 





102,114 



Bones, burnt and unburnt 



13,023 



5,144 



40,685 



177,104 



121, 98*2 



219,637 





IOI 





25,548 



1,250 





149,189 



Nitrate of soda 



24,485 



300 



140,926 



514,525 



6,000 



1,490,669 



Phosphate of lime and rock 















phosphate 



35i,8i7 



464,872 



539»oi6 



i,325,5U 



1,948,543 



874,166 



