112 IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. [Sept. 1894. 



V. — Imports of Meat salted and preserved. 



The quantities and values of salted and preserved meat 

 imported in the six months ended June 1893 and 1894 

 respectively are shown in the following table : — 



Description. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



1 



1893. 1894. 



1893. 



1894. 



Salted beef . . - 



„ pork 

 Bacon - - - - 

 Hams - - - 

 Meat, preserved, otherwise than by 



salting (chiefly canned). 

 Meat, unenumerated, salted or 



fresh. 



Total 



Cwts. 

 93,842 

 77,428 

 1,444,798 

 437,067 

 271,732 



101,515 



Cwts. 

 125,641 

 112,072 

 1,832,235 

 551,898 

 243,329 



101,409 



123,418 

 125,844 

 3,825,441 

 1,331,453 

 699,033 



230,914 



£ 



189,898 

 184,274 

 4,041,107 

 1,311,.591 

 689,012 



224,585 



2,426,382 



2,966,584 



6,336,103 



6,640,467 



The above returns show an increase of nearly 400,000 cwts. 

 in the receipts of bacon, and this is chiefly made up by larger 

 supplies from the United States. It is to be remembered, how- 

 ever, that the imports of 1893, with which the comparison is 

 made, were unusually small, and that the receipts of the first 

 half of 1894 are still nearly nine per cent, under those of the 

 first half of 1892. 



YI, — Imports of Dairy Produce, Eggs, and Lard. 





Quantities. 



Values. 



Description. 













1893. 



1894. 



1893. 



1894. 





Cwts. 



Cwts. 



£ 



£ 



Butter - 



1,208,204 



1,342,018 



6,540,249 



7,183,332 



Margarine 

 Cheese - - 



629,242 



602,049 



1,817,184 



1,647,712 



629,958 



744,359 



1,597,610 



1,871,082 



Lard - - - ■ 



558,761 



723.644 



1,485,693 



1,456,864 



Condensed milk - 



228,991 



279,273 



465,222 



569,027 



Great 



Great 









Hundreds. 



Hundreds. 







Eggs - - - - 



5,174,149 



6,163,051 



1,901,317 



1,948,771 



There was a slight augmentation in the imports of butter, 

 and from the following table it will be seen that Denmark 

 increased her shipments of that article to this country by 

 nearly 80,000 cwts. compared with the similar period in 1893. 

 With respect to the increase of 120,000 cwts. entered from 

 " other countries," it may be observed that this was principally 



