588 



Imports of Agricultural Produce. 



[JAN., 



appears to be entirely due to a considerable expansion in the 

 imports of Canadian bacon, viz., from 665,200 cwt. in 1903 and 

 829,900 cwt. in 1904 to 1,191,400 cwt. in 1905, the contributions 

 from Denmark (1,471,700 cwt.) and from the United States 

 (2,755,000 cwt.) being less than in the preceding year. A com- 

 parison of the average values shows a fall from 47s. id. per 

 cwt. in 1904 to 46s. 6d. per cwt. in 1905, the average for 

 Danish bacon being 54s. id., for American 42s. 4d., and for 

 Canadian 46s. 2d. per cwt. 



Converting the live animals into their equivalent weight of 

 meat and adding the total imports of dead meat of all kinds, it 

 appears that this country consumed, in addition to the home 

 supply, some 22,457,600 cwt., compared with 21,321,000 cwt. 

 in 1904. The total value credited to these different kinds of 

 live and dead meat was ^48,412,000. 



Table II. 



Imports of Dairy Produce, Margarine, and Eggs. 



Description. 



Quan 



tities. 



Values. 













1904. 



1905. 



1904. 



1905. 





Cwt. 



Cwt. 



£ 



£ 



Butter 



4,241,005 



4,147,864 



21,117,162 



21,585,622 



Margarine 



960,278 



1,088,189 



2,494,467 



2,736,286 



Cheese ... 



2,554=297 



2,442,660 



5,843,770 



6,339,742 



Milk, Condensed 



904,136 



894,921 



1,608,391 



1,584,903 





Gt. Hundreds. 









Eggs 



19,942,594 



18,814,261 



6,730,574 



6,812,476 



In point of quantity the imports of dairy produce and 

 eggs shown in the above table were rather less in 1905, 

 though the value was greater. The figures for butter do not 

 exhibit any substantial change, the fluctuations in the supplies 

 from the different countries being comparatively unimportant. 

 Among Continental countries Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and 

 France continued to show the tendency to decline, which was 

 observable last year, while Russia showed an increase. 

 Canadian butter exhibited a further growth. The average 

 value of imported butter was higher in 1905 (£$ 4s. 2d. per 

 cwt.) than in 1904 (£4 19s. 7d. per cwt.). 



