368 IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. [March 1895. 



XIV.— IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL 

 PRODUCE IN 1894. 



Imports of Live Animals and Dead Meat. 



The returns furnished weekly by Her Majesty's Customs to 

 the Board of Agriculture show that the ii^ports of cattle last 

 year exceeded those of 1893 by 135,000 head, or 40 per cent., 

 and that the sheep imported into the United Kingdom were 

 nearly eight times as numerous as in the previous year, as will 

 be seen from the table below : — 









Cattle. 



Sheep. 



Countries from -which exported. 



52 Weeks 



52 Weeks 



52 Weeks 



52 Weeks 



ended De- 



ended De- 



ended De- 



ended De- 





cember 30, 



cember 29, 



cember 30, 



cember 29, 





1893. 



1894. 



1893. 



1894. 





No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



United States - 



248,766 



381,241 





193,837 



Canada- - _ _ 



82,935 



82,326 



3,590 



136,692 



Argentine Republic 



6,884 



9,546 



22,372 



73,442 



Channel Islands 



1,301 



1,603 







New South Wales 





36 





42 



Iceland - - - - 







29,24a 



65,524 



Norway- - 



41 



3 



6,807 



10,837 



Chili - - - - 







694 







339,927 



474,755 



62,712 



480,374 



The increased receipts of cattle were practically accounted for 

 by the augmentation in the numbers received from the United 

 States, but the total was nevertheless below the entries of any 

 single year of the period 1889-1892. The imports of Canadian 

 cattle were practically the same as in 1893. The entry of 

 9,546 live cattle from the Argentine Kepublic formed the largest 

 importation yet recorded from this quarter, and an entirely 

 novel feature of the import trade in cattle was the entry into 

 the United Kingdom of 36 live cattle from New South Wales 

 in 1894. 



As regards the importation of live sheep, the number received 

 in the past 12 months exceeded the importation of any single 

 year since 1889. The importation has mainly come from the 

 United States and Canada, representing a larger arrival 

 than has before been credited to transatlantic countries. On 



