ioi6 Importation of Live Stock into Brazil, [mar., 



185. 4^.; and from New York to London, 405. to 51s. 3d. 

 per head. 



The total cost of sending beef cattle from the feeding- 

 districts of Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma to London 

 appears, therefore, to vary from £3 15s. to 3s., and the 

 cost is practically the same when they come from Montana 

 and Dakota. 



The cost of carriage by sea cannot be so definitely ascer- 

 tained as the railroad charges, as ocean freight rates are the 

 subject of private contract, and are not usually made public. 

 They were quoted in 1908 at from 25s. to 305. per head for 

 cattle and 35. per head for sheep. The addition of the cost of 

 attendants' wages, food for the stock, and incidental expenses 

 may increase this amount by from 12s. 6d. to 215. per head. 



The high cost of transport of live animals naturally encour- 

 ages the substitution for them of dead meat, which can be sent 

 at a substantially lower rate, the total cost of shipping a live 

 steer from Chicago to Liverpool being considerably more than 

 double the cost of shipping the average weight of fresh beef 

 yielded by the animal. 



In continuation of the information given in previous issues* 

 of this Journal as to the importation of live stock into Brazil, 

 the following particulars furnished by 

 Importation of Live Mn V ice-Consul Causer, of Sao Joao 

 Stock and Machinery 11T ^ T ^ r . 



into Brazil. d EL Re ^ are of interest - 



With a view to assist the farmers to 



import animals, a contract was entered into by the 

 Government of the State of Minas Geraes on October 22nd, 

 1908, with an English firm, Messrs. Hopkins, Causer and 

 Hopkins, of Rio de Janeiro, for the supply of 1,065 animals of 

 pedigree stock, this number being made up as follows : — • 

 Cattle : 814 Indian animals, 35 Swiss, 29 Lincoln Red Dairy 

 Shorthorns, 2 Herefords, 5 Simmenthal, 1 Shorthorn, 7 

 Jerseys, 1 Oldenburg, 7 Holstein, 3 Ayrshire, 6 Devon, 3 

 Guernsey ; Goats : 99 animals of various Continental races ; 

 Sheep : 14 Oxford Downs, and 20 of other breeds; Horses: 

 6 Bolognese and 1 Arabian 



* Information as regards demand for live stock, &c, in Brazil has appeared in 

 previous numbers of this Journal as follows : — August, 1907, p. 303 ; March, 1908, 

 p. 738; April, 1908, p. 50; January, 1909, p.; 755 ; April, 1909, p. 37,. and Sep- 

 tember 1909, p. 485. 



