438 Imports of Agricultural Produce in 1897. 



over the receipts of 1896 ; but salt beef remains 

 a relatively unimportant item in our Trade Accounts. 



Articles. 



Horses - - - - I 

 Cattle - - - - 

 Sheep - - - - 

 Bacon - - - - C 

 Beef: 



Salted 



Fresh 



Hams - - - - 

 Meat unenumerated : 



Salted or fresh - 



Preserved, otherwise 

 than by salting 

 Mutton, fresh 

 Pork: 



Salted (not Hams) - 



PVesh- 

 Rabbits- 

 Corn : 



Wheat 



AVheat Meal and flour 

 Barley 



Oats - - - - 



Maize 

 Butter - - - - 

 Margarine - 

 Cheese - - - - 

 Milk,condensed or preserved 



and cream, fresh 

 Eggs - - - Gt. hundreds 

 Fruit : 



Apples - - - Bushels 



Pears ... 

 Onions - - - Bushels 

 Potatoes - - - Cwts. 

 Hops - - - - Cwts. 

 Tallov/ and Stearine - ,, 

 Hides, wet and dry - Cwts. 

 Lard - - - - 

 Poultry and Game 

 Vegetables (unenumerated) 

 Hay - - - - Tons 

 Wool - - - Lbs. 



1896. 



1897. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



Quantities. 



Values. 



40,677 

 562,553 

 769,592 

 4,549,526 



1,027,736 

 9,305,055 

 1,133,634 

 7,854,515 



49,519 

 618,336 

 611,504 

 5,004,915 



£ 



1,254,342 

 10,461,236 

 919,096 

 8,867,846 



247,536 

 2,659,700 

 1,459,412 



303,700 

 5,028,828 

 3, 136,089 



175,236 

 3,010,387 

 1,725,875 



216,241 

 5,783,667 



^ 681 Qt;8 



279,390 



554,064 



364,822 



727,283 



701,750 

 2,895,158 



1,775,507 

 4,718,546 



669,785 

 3,193,276 



1,701,306 

 4,827,868 



255,339 

 299,411 

 170,873 



291,966 

 687,241 

 401,614 



237,206 

 347,617 

 276,458 



253,693 

 765,128 



543,494 



70,025,980 

 21,320,200 

 22,477,322 

 17,586,730 

 51,772,100 

 3,037,718 

 925,934 

 2,244,525 

 611,335 

 Galls. 22,776 

 13,245,011 



21,678,989 

 9,227,873 

 5,709,531 

 4,226,317 

 9,422,539 



15,344,364 

 2,498,425 

 4,900,342 

 1,170,352 

 5,489 

 4,184,656 



^62,743,280 

 18,680,669 

 18,958,720 

 16,116,810 

 53,785,380 

 3,217,801 



936,543 

 2,603,608 



751,743 

 cwts. 10,006 



14,031,752 



23,363,505 

 9,599,656 

 4,681,074 

 4,038,813 

 9,188,978 



15,916,911 

 2,485,370 

 5,886,546 



1,398,363 

 9,848 



4,356,799 



6,176,956 

 483,823 



6,086,905 



2,244,627 

 207,041 



2,049,749 

 973,797 



1,739,463 



107,963 

 713,575,173 



1,582,495 

 206,674 

 681,949 

 907,97s 

 591,582 

 2,178,652 

 2,224,941 

 2,268,693 

 705,478 

 1,284,753 

 355,344 

 24,958,346 



4,199,971 

 1,051,694 



6,108,928 



3,922,319 

 164,154 

 1,950,975 

 1,195,245 



1,740,468 

 121,492 



735,632,516 



1,187,303 

 377,808 

 760,630 



1,200,390 



524,297 

 1,870,289 



2,750,154 

 1,993,143 

 730,725 

 1,454,720 



24,436,872 



For imported fresh mutton the demand also rose above the 

 level of 1896, since the live and dead consignments during 

 the past year, which, in the aggregate, represented about 

 3,541,028 cwtSc of mutton, were 206,000 cwts. in excess of those 

 of the former period. Foreign and colonial bacon and hams 

 continue to find an increasing market in this country, the 

 weight of these articles entered in 1897 having been 

 6,731,000 cwts., this supply being 722,000 cwts. more than 

 the previous year's entry, and the largest annual importa- 

 tion recorded. About 585,000 cwts. of pork, fresh and salted, 

 were received, and meat unenumerated, salted, fresh, and 



