1906.] Exportation of Live Stock to France. 603 



cattle feeders inclines to oilcake which, the protein content being 

 satisfactory, contains the highest per cent, of fat or oil. 

 Crushers recognise this requirement of the extensive home 

 market, and it is on this account that British-made cake com- 

 mands a higher price than American-made cake upon the 

 British markets. As a general rule, therefore, the yield of oil 

 obtained by British crushers from a given quantity of flax- 

 seed is somewhat smaller than would be obtained from the same 

 quantity of seed in the United States, and, consequently, British- 

 made oilcake usually contains a higher percentage of fat than 

 that imported from America. 



The average yield of oil per bushel (56 lb.) of seed is 

 estimated in the same publication to be equivalent to 18 lb. 

 (2*4 gallons), leaving a residue of 38 lb. in the form of oilcake. 

 On this assumption the quantity of oilcake manufactured from 

 flaxseed imported for crushing in the United Kingdom during 

 the past five years has averaged 285,000 tons. 



Practically the whole of this is retained for home consump- 

 tion, and in addition there is a fairly steady importation of lin- 

 seed cake from abroad, averaging in the same period (1901- 

 1905) 171,000 tons annually. In 1905 it was lower than in any 

 of the five preceding years, and only amounted to 154,762 tons. 

 Germany, Russia, and the United States are the principal sources 

 of supply. The exports of home-made linseed cake are only 

 available for 1904 and 1905, when they amounted to 10 1 and 

 546 tons, while the re-exports of imported linseed cake which 

 are available for the five-year period 1900-4 averaged 443 tons. 

 From this it will be seen that nearly the whole of the supply is 

 consumed in the United Kingdom. Adding the estimated home 

 production to the imports and deducting the exports, it appears 

 that the supply has averaged 455,000 tons annually in the 

 quinquennium 1901-1905, of which about 62 per cent, has been 

 manufactured at home, and the remainder imported. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have been informed 



that difficulties have arisen at some of the French Channel ports 



owing to the fact that the formalities pre- 



Exportation scr jbed by the Decree of the nth June, 1905, 

 of Live Stock . ' J ' * D ' 



to France- wltn regard to the importation into France 



of horses and other animals have not been 



complied with in Great Britain. 



