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GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [March 1897. 



Live Stock in Argentina. 



A census of the live stock in the Argentine Republic was 

 taken in the month of May in the year 1895, and from the 

 results which have been recently published in La Agricwltura, 

 the following table has been compiled showing the total number 

 of animals enumerated of each description compared with those 

 recorded in the census of 1888 : — ■ 



Stock. 



1895. 



1888. 



Horses - 

 Cattle 

 Sheep - 

 Pigs - 

 Goats - 



4,447,000 

 21,702,000 

 74,380,000 

 653,000 



2,749,000 



4,262,917 

 21,963,930 

 66,701,097 

 403,203 



1,969,765 



The figures relating to cattle in 1895 include 1,800,799 milch 

 cows. 



Of the 74,000,000 sheep, 18,000,000 are " criollos," a degene- 

 rated native breed descended from the Spanish-merino, and 

 56,000,000 are " mestizos/' improved merinos, or merino cross- 

 breds. The increase of 7,700,000 in sheep since 1 888 is accounted 

 for by an augmentation of 14,000,000 in the number of mestizos 

 and a diminution of 6,300,000 in the number of criollos. 

 Nearly 53,000,000 of the sheep enumerated are located in the 

 province of Buenos Ayres, 6,210,000 are in Entre Rios, and 

 5,300,000 in Pampa Central. The sheep in Santa Fe* have 

 decreased by about 1,000,000, but an increase is observable in 

 most of the other provinces of the Republic. The slight decline in 

 the number of homed stock is stated to have taken place mainly 

 in the provinces of Buenos Ayres, Entre IJios, Corrientes, and 

 Cordoba ; it has been confined to the inferior class of cattle. 



The Imports of Fresh Milk and Cream. 



Some reference was made last year in this Journal*" to the 

 fluctuations in the imports of fresh milk and cream, and the 

 opinion was expressed that these large supplies would probably 

 prove to be of a temporary character. This appears to be the 

 case, as the imports during 1896 seem to have sunk to com- 

 paratively in significant proportions, amounting only to 22,776 

 gallons during the year, as against 126,995 gallons in 1895 and 

 161,633 gallons in 1894. The latter was the first year in which 

 the statistics of this class of dairy produce were distinguished : 

 it was, in fact, the great increase in the imports of this nature 

 which led to their being separately recorded in the year named. 



* Vol. II., p. 449, and Vol. III., p. 212.] 



