191 1.] British Export Trade in Live Stock. 769 



situated works to produce sulphate more economically than 

 heretofore, whilst the recovery of this substance from peat 

 continues to receive energetic attention, and may prove a 

 further source of production. 



In the table below are shown the imports of the materials 

 used in the fertiliser trade, the principal being mineral phos- 

 phates. A proportion of the nitrate of soda imported is used 

 in the manufacture of sulphuric and nitric acid. 





IQIO. 



1909. 



1908. 



Guano ... 



Mineral phosphates 



Nitrate of soda 



tons. 



20,395 

 455,593 

 126,498 



tons. 

 20,321 

 451,807 

 90, 207 



tons. 



34>4I7 

 529.135 

 H5,724 



The figures show a considerable increase compared with 

 1909 in the quantity of nitrate of soda, Peruvian guano and 

 mineral phosphates remaining the same. 



The number of chemical manure works under inspection 

 in 1910 was 161, as compared with 167 in 1907. In Scotland 

 the chemical manure works numbered 38, or the same number 

 as in 1909. 



The Report * of the Departmental Committee appointed by 

 the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to 

 inquire and report as to the British 



Committee on the ex P ort trade in live stock with the 

 British Export Trade Colonies and other countries, has been 

 in Live Stock. recently issued. The Report deals with 

 the character and extent of the existing 

 trade ; and with the possibility of extending it by advertising, 

 by affording facilities to the foreign buyer in this country, 

 and by the establishment of a Government testing station. 

 It also discusses the various hindrances which affect the trade, 

 such as tuberculosis and other diseases, foreign import regu- 

 lations, transit rates and facilities, export certificates and 

 insurance. 



* Cd 5947. Price $d. (Wyman). 



