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Russian Live Stock Industry. 



to it in connection with the growth of the export trade in 

 pork. 



At the present time Russia's imports of cattle and sheep 

 are in excess of her exports. In 1S98 the live stock imported 

 included 53,000 cattle and 379,000 sheep and calves. China 

 furnished a large proportion of the cattle, and the other 

 principal contributors were Persia, Roumania, Finland, and 

 Turkey. The sheep and calves were imported mainly from 

 China, Persia, and Afghanistan. The exports of cattle from 

 Russia in the same year amounted to 11,000 head, of which 

 over 4,000 were sent to Turkey; i,8co to the United King- 

 dom, though these animals were not received here alive ; 

 2,000 to China, and 1,400 to Malta. The number of sheep 

 exported was 106,000, mainly to Turkey, China, France, 

 Greece, and Egypt. 



The development of an export trade in meat from Russia 

 is likely to be accompanied by a greater demand for animals 

 of British blood for the purpose of improving the native 

 stock of the country. A movement in this direction is 

 apparent in the statistics of the exports of cattle to Russian 

 ports from the United Kingdom. During the past four years 

 the total numbers so shipped have been 378, at an average 

 value of about £20 per head. In the same period 327 British 

 sheep were exported to Russia at an average value of £g per 

 head ; and 306 swine at an average value of nearly £7 each, 

 of which number 196 were shipped last year. 



