212 IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. [Sept. 1895. 



months of this year, as compared with 1,344,388 cwts. and 

 1,036,963 cwts. in the corresponding periods of 1894 and 1893 re- 

 spectively. The imports of Danish bacon also showed an increase 

 of nearly 60,000 cwts., as compared with the quantity received 

 in the six months ending June 1894. As regards the imports 

 of hams, the United States was responsible for nearly the whole 

 of the increase, the total weight of hams received from that 

 country having been 593,588 cwts. during the first six months of 

 1895, while in 1894 the imports amounted to 537,955 cwts., and 

 in 1893 to 423,807 cwts. There was also an increase in the 

 quantity of hams imported from Canada, the receipts in the first 

 half of 1895 being 15,996 cwts., as compared with 12,113 cwts» 

 in the corresponding period of the previous year. 



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



The imports of dairy produce, margarine, eggs, and lard in 

 tlie period under review are given in the table below : — 



Description. 



Quantities. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1894. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1895. 



Values. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1894. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1895. 



Butter - 

 Margarine 

 Cheese - 

 Lard - 

 Condensed milk 



Fresh milk and cream 



Eggs 



Cwts. 



1,340,784 

 602,049 

 747,196 

 723,644 

 279,273 



Gallons. 

 69,040 

 Great 

 Hundreds. 



6,163,051 



Cwts. 



1,456,690 

 448,187 

 765,355 

 906,128 

 262,025 



Gallons. 

 117,353 

 Great 

 Hundreds. 



5,963,357 



£ 



7,169,332 

 1,647,712 

 1,878,834 

 1,456,864 

 569,027 



3,811 



1,948,771 



£ 



7,243,861 

 1,228,385 

 1,790,041 

 1,588,582 

 524,293 



17,910 



1,860,410 



The imports of butter in the six months ended June last 

 showed an increase of 116,000 cwts. on the quantity received 

 in the same period of last year. It is to be noted that 

 over a third of this increase was due to larger receipts of 

 butter from Australia, both Victoria and New South Wales 

 having materially -increased their exports of butter to this 

 country, while New Zealand, on the other hand, sent rather 

 smaller 'consignments during the period under review. There 

 was also a slight augmentation in the imports of Danish 

 and Swedish butter, while France also increased her ship- 

 ments of butter to the United Kingdom, as compared with 

 the first six months of 1894, though the 215,618 cwts. received 

 this year were 30,000 cwts. short of the quantity of French 

 butter imported in the six months ending June 1893. An in- 

 creasing supply of butter from North Kussia is now being received, 

 the quantity imported from this source having been 68,000 cwts., 

 as compared with 37,883 cwts. in 1894 and 21,000 cwts. in 



