228 Agricultural Exports from Cherbourg 



The average value of all the horses exported is about £22 

 to £2$. Of the exports to the United Kingdom about 90 per 

 cent, are draught horses (including omnibus and tram 

 horses) ; 7 per cent, high class carriage horses ; and 3 per cent, 

 trotting and light carriage horses. 



To land Chicago horses in the different ports of Europe 

 costs from £6 to £8 per head. 



Pedigree horses for breeding purposes are allowed to enter 

 the United States free of Customs duty, and about 1,000 are 

 annually imported. The average value has of late years 

 been from £60 to £go per head, those from the United 

 Kingdom being worth on the average considerably over 

 £100. In point of numbers, Canada sends most, but these 

 are only valued at about £20 per head. Of animals subject 

 to duty, the United States imports from 1,000 to 1,500 head 

 annually; they are valued at an average of about ^30 each. 



[Foreign Office Report \ Miscellaneous Series, 1901, A T o. 563. Price id.] 



Exports of Farm Produce from Cherbourg to the 

 United Kingdom. 



Mr. Consul Loftus, reporting on the trade and agriculture 

 of the Consular District of Cherbourg in the years 1899 and 

 1900, states that notwithstanding the quality and pack- 

 ing of Normandy butter from that port, the trade has 

 suffered from the increased competition in the import- 

 ation into the United Kingdom of Russian, Danish, and 

 Australian butters. During the first half of 1899, nearly 

 3,000 tons of butter were exported from Russia, a very large 

 proportion of which found its way to the United Kingdom. 

 From 1897 t0 1900 the returns in the export of butter from 

 Cherbourg show a decrease of 4,240 tons. 



The export of milk and cream, carried on by an English 

 firm at Cherbourg, shows an increase from 176 tons in 1899 

 to 474 tons in 1900. It is put into English milk cans in 

 France, and shipped to Southampton, thence by rail to 

 London. 



