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IMPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN 1901. 



The following Tables, which have been compiled from the 

 Trade and Navigation Returns, show the quantities and 

 values of the principal articles of agricultural produce 

 imported into the United Kingdom during the past year 

 compared with the similar imports for 1900. In the imports 

 of live animals and dead meat, which are shown on Table I., 

 there were no very remarkable changes. Not vithstanding 

 the entire suspension of the Argentine shipment of live stock 

 to this country, there was only a slight reduction in the 

 entries of cattle and sheep, as larger cargoes were received 

 from North American ports. Of cattle, the United States 

 sent us 405,703 head, or 55,494 more than in the previous 

 year ; but Canada contributed 16,628 fewer than in 1900, her 

 shipments last year having numbered 88,2 1 1. Both countries, 

 however, despatched larger consignments of sheep to our 

 shores last year than in 1900, the supplies from the former 

 having amounted to 300,152 head as compared with 142,906 ; 

 while the Dominion sent 68,010 head as compared with 35,673. 

 In the case of cattle it is noteworthy that the total number 

 received last year was only 9,300 head short of the supplies 

 entered in 1899, when we received 85,365 from Argentina, the 

 small difference being due to the fact that the cessation of 

 the South American shipments had been followed in the- 

 interval by an increase of 82,717 head in the cargoes from 

 the United States. 



The average value per head of the cattle imported in 1901 

 was £\-] 16s. od., and of the sheep £1 10s. od. ; these figures 

 compare with £18 4s. od. and £1 12s. od. respectively in 

 the previous year. 



It will be observed that all kinds of fresh meat were re- 

 ceived in larger quantities last year than in 1900, the in- 



