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EXPORTS OF BRITISH CATOLE IN 1894. [March 1895.. 



of 1893, which was so severely felt over Europe generally, 

 has, no doubt, had its effect in reducing the live stock of other 

 countries as well as our own. In France, in particular, the 

 necessity of resorting to importation in the past year has been 

 remarkably shown by the figures published for the foreign trade 

 of that country in 1894, the cattle imports rising from 6,906 

 head in 1893 to 164,082 last year. JSot only did she draw 

 from her own dependencies of Algeria and Tunis 126,019 oxen, 

 against 5,849 from these territories in 1893, but notwithstanding 

 the existing duties on imports, her receipts of live cattle from 

 the United States and Canada numbered 19,232 head, against 

 only 201 in the previous year. At the same time, France imported 

 nearly twice as many sheep as in 1893. Nearly three fourths of 

 the 1,991^000 sheep which she received came from her own 

 African possessions ; but both Germany and Austria sent into 

 France in 1894 rather a larger number of live sheep than 

 Great Britain received from all quarters in the same year, 

 although it may be remembered that our imports of sheep in 

 1894 were nearly eight times greater than those of 1893. 



