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



six months of 1895 having amounted to 816,915 cwts., as compared 

 with 25,920 cwts. in the same period of 1894, and 25,000 cwts. in 

 1893. France also increased her shipments of potatoes to this 

 country in the six months ended June last, the imports of French 

 potatoes being 779,254 cwts., while in the first half of 1894, 

 396,802 cwts. were received, and in 1893, 587,213 cwts. On 

 the other hand, the imports of potatoes from the Channel 

 Islands declined by 300,000 cwts., the entries having amounted 

 to 700,229 in the first six months of 1895, as compared with 

 1,004,586 cwts. in the previous year, and 1,049,827 cwts. in 1893. 





Quantities. 



Values. 



Description. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1894. 



First Six 

 Mouths of 

 1895. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1894. 



First Six 

 Months of 

 1895. 



Vegetables : — 

 Onions - 



Potatoes - - - 

 Unenumerated 



Bushels. 



2,394,950 



Cwts. 

 1,701,409 



Bushels. 



2,407,323 

 Cwts. 



2,823,282 



376,021 



755,131 

 479,977 



£ ■ 



319,658 



948,742 

 584,452 



Total 







1,611,129 



1,852,852 



Hops - - - ■ 



Cwts. 



62,409 



Cwts. 

 105>703 



351,617 



328,104 



Fruit :— 



Apples _ - - 

 Oranges - 



Ijemons _ - - 

 Cherries - 



Plums _ _ - 

 Pears - - - - 

 Grapes _ - - 

 Unenumerated 



Bushels. 



875,088 

 4,681,247 

 735,351 

 210,346 

 4,715 

 13,696 

 9,333 

 407,810 



Bushels. 



1,372,819 

 5,282,377 

 617,437 

 127,452 

 5,073 

 14,360 

 10,874 

 338,289 



272,014 

 1,280,555 

 202,087 

 128,883 

 4,736 

 6,350 

 16,260 

 250,913 



418,804 

 1,441,724 

 172,329 

 74,067 

 5,185 

 7,271 

 13,922 

 189,622 



Total 







2,161,798 



2,322,924 



The increase of 43,000 cwts. in the supply of hops is due 

 mainly to larger shipments from the United States, the quantity 

 of American hops landed in the six months having amounted to 

 87,886 cwts., as compared with 51,821 cwts. in the first half of 

 last year. German and Dutch hops were also received in larger 

 quantities than in the corresponding period of 1894, the supplies 

 from Germany having been 4,663 cwts., as against 1,358 cwts., 

 while Holland contributed 5,551 cwts. this year and 1,700 cwts. 

 in the first six months of last year. As regards fruit, it 

 will be observed that there was an increase in the importation 

 of apples of nearly 500,000 bushels, but the imports for the six 

 months ending June 1895 were only 250,000 bushels in excess 

 of those of the same period in 1893. The only other item calling 

 for attention is the decline in the supply of cherries. 



