191 1.] Imports of Agricultural Produce in 1910. 819 



Total Imports of Meat. — Converting the live animals into 

 their equivalent weight of meat and adding the total imports 

 of dead meat of all kinds (excluding poultry and game), it 

 appears that the quantity available, in addition to the home 

 supply, was some 21,401,000 cwt., as compared with 

 21,479,000 cwt. in 1909, 22,205,000 cwt. in 1908, and 

 22,586,600 cwt. in 1907. This was not entirely consumed 

 in this country as there was a small re-export amounting to 

 220,000 cwt. 



The total value credited to the different kinds of live and 

 dead meat, including poultry and game, was ^48,879,000, 

 as compared with ^47,623,000 in 1909, ^49,448,000 in 1908, 

 ,£51,888,000 in 1907, and ^52,026,000 in 1906. 



IMPORTS of Dairy Produce, Margarine, and Eggs. 



Description. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



1909. 



1910. 



1909. 



1910. 





Cwt. 



Cwt. 



£ 



£ 



Butter ... 



4,062,812 



4,325,539 



22,424,962 



24,493,450 



Margarine 



868,292 



1,120,616 



2,243,737 



2,935,244 



Cheese ... 



2,390,090 



2,456,351 



6,829,863 



6,809,854 



Milk, condensed 



99i>378 



1,009,476 



1,731,776 



1,755,070 





Great 



Great 









hundreds. 



hundreds. 







Eggs ... 



17,710,431 



18,344,137 



7,233-932 



7,296,145 



Butter. — About three-fourths of the butter supplied to this 

 country from abroad comes from the Continent of Europe, 

 Denmark (1,726,000 cwt.), Russia (584,000 cwt.), France 

 (361,000 Cwt.), Sweden (346,000 cwt.), and Holland (155,000 

 cwt.), being the chief contributors. Almost the whole of the 

 remainder is received from Australia (639,100 cwt.) and New 

 Zealand (363,000 cwt.). 



The quantity of butter received was nearly as large as in 

 1906, when the maximum amount yet recorded was imported; 

 the value, however, in 1910 was 113s. 3d. per cwt., as com- 

 pared with 108s. 2d. in 1906, so that the total value of the 

 foreign and colonial butter imported in the past year was 

 exceptionally high. 



Cheese. — The supply of cheese showed a small increase, 

 Canada maintaining its position as the principal exporter. 



