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XVI.— IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL 

 PRODUCE m THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 

 30th, 1893 AND 1894. 



I. — Imports of Cattle and Sheep. 





Cattle. 



Sheep. 



Countries from which exported. 



26 Weeks 



26 Weeks 



26 Weeks 



26 Weeks 



ended 



ended 



ended 



ended 





July 1, 



June 30, 



July 1, 



June 30, 





1893. 



1894. 



1893. 



1894. 





No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



United States - _ _ 



117,661 



207,975 





83,179 



Canada - - - - 



26,228 



23,334 



101 



9,670 



Argentine Kepublic 



3,691 



6,662 



11,555 



39,492 



Channel Islands - - - 



587 



741 







Chili _ - - _ 







694 







148,167 



238,712 



12,350 



132,341 



The above figures, which have been compiled from Returns 

 furnished weekly by H.M. Customs, show an increase in the im- 

 portation of cattle of over 90,000 head in the first six months 

 of the current year as compared with the imports of the same 

 period in 1893. Nearly the whole of the increase is accounted 

 for by the larger supplies from the United States, w^hich fur- 

 nished about nine-tenths of the live cattle received in the first 

 half of 1894. This increase, however, fails to replace the 

 total at the figure at which it stood in 1892, when 248,000 

 head of cattle were imported in the first six months of the year; 

 The receipts from the Argentine Republic exceeded those of 

 1893 by 3,000 head. 



The table shows a largely increased importation of sheep 

 from the United States. The number of sheep received from 

 that source in the six months — viz., 83,1 79—- was considerably 

 in excess of the imports of any previous 12 months since 1883, 

 the largest importation since the year mentioned, having been 

 in 1889, when 18,691 head of sheep were shipped to this country 

 from the United States. The other countries which helped to 

 make up the increase of 120,000 head in the supply of sheep 

 were Canada and the Argentine Republic, the imports from 

 Canada having exceeded those of the first six months of 1893 

 by some 9,500 head, while the receipts from the Argentine 

 Republic were 39,492 head, or more than treble those of the 

 ?ame period of 1893. 



