8 1 8 Imports of Agricultural Produce in 1910. [jan., 



Imports of Live and Dead Meat. 





Quantity. 



Value. 



Description. 





















1909. 



I9IO. 



1909. 



I9IO. I 



Cattle ... 



Sheep 



Number. 

 321,340 

 8,131 



Number. 

 219,561 

 427 



£ 



5,566,105 

 12,923 



£ 



4,027,918 



754 



Total live animals ... 







5=579,028 



4028,672 



Beef, fresh & refrigerated 



salted 

 Mutton, fresh 



and refrigerated 

 Pork, fresh & refrigerated 



,, salted 

 Bacon 

 Hams 



Meat unenumerated — 

 Fresh and refrigerated ... 



Salted 



Meat, preserved ... 

 Rabbits, dead 



Cwt. 

 6,140,522 

 1 10,01 5 



A 76l 8^8 

 428,444 



258,539 

 4,625,463 

 1,129,029 



698,801 

 55,601 

 609,984 

 579,856 



Cwt. 

 7,015,498 

 57,030 



5,406,026 



479,907 



227, 191 



3, 50 3,3 5 9 

 719,126 



707,H3 

 7o,54i 

 742,834 

 664,190 



10,293,406 

 I 96, 238 



1,023,322 

 312,862 

 I3,oOl,00-) 

 3,112,896 



1,276,009 

 98,645 

 2,333,413 

 727,954 



11,745,222 

 I 73,9 2 4 



9,803,004 



1 ',196, 797 

 304,168 



13,39!, 274 

 2,526,585 



i,3io,739 

 102,573 



2,514,063 

 837,122 



Total dead meat 



19,398,092 



19,983,451 



41,015,605 



43,905,471 



Poultry and game 









1,028,795 



944,922 



Bacon. — The decline in the importation of bacon which was 

 noticeable in 1909 continued in 1910, and the imports were 

 lower than in any year since 1894. The falling off was chiefly 

 confined to the United States and Canada, the former country 

 only sending 1,307,000 cwt. as compared with 2,858,000 cwt. 

 in 1908, and the latter 412,000 cwt. as against 688,000 cwt. 

 There was also some decline in the exports from Denmark, 

 which only sent 1,794,000 cwt. as compared with 2,050,000 

 cwt. in 1908. 



The declared average value was 695. 4J. per cwt. as com- 

 pared with 595. 8d. in 1909 and 505. nd. in 1908. It thus 

 exceeded the highest figure recorded in the last forty years, 

 viz., 625. iod. per cwt. in 1870. 



Poultry and Game, — Poultry is chiefly received from 

 Russia, United States, France, and Austria, and the total 

 value in 1910 was ,-£821,000, a somewhat substantial drop 

 from the total of the preceding year (^921,000). The value 

 of the imported game was ;£ 124,000. 



