493 Imports of Agricultural Produce. 



creases amounting to 380,616 cwts. of beef, 215,379 cwts. of 

 mutton, and 96,114 cwts. of pork. The steady growth of the 

 imports of fresh beef has been commented upon in earlier 

 numbers of this Journal, and the entries of the past year show 

 no interruption in the expansion of this trade. Of the 

 4,508,746 cwts. received, the greater proportion (nearly three- 

 fourths) is contributed by the United States. 



A more interesting feature of the fresh beef trade is the 

 increase which has taken place in the shipments from the 

 River Plate since the exclusion of Argentine live stock from 

 our ports. In 1899 the consignments from Argentina 

 amounted to only 150,000 cwts., in the following year they 

 rose to 412,000 cwts., and in iqoi to nearly 772,000 cwts 

 The declared value of the fresh beef imported last year from 

 all sources was 39s. 6d. per cwt. 



Table I. 





Quantities. 



Values. 



Description. 





















1900. 



1 901. 



1900. 



1 901. 



Cattle 

 Sheep - 



No. 



495,645 

 382,833 



No. 



495-634 

 383,594 



£ 



9,012,194 

 610,125 



£ 



8,817,064 

 582,969 



Total Live Animals - 



878,478 



879,228 



9.622,319 



9,400,033 



Beef, Fresh - 



,, Salted - 

 Mutton, Fresh 

 Pork ,, - 



„ Salted - 

 Bacon - 

 Hams - 



Meat, Unenumerated — 

 Salted or Fresh 

 Meat, Preserved 

 Rabbits (dead) 



Cwts. 

 4,128,130 



192,934 

 3,392,850 



695:395 

 248,728 

 5,641,238 

 1,802,670 



530,688 



805,943 

 473,162 



Cwts. 

 4,508,746 

 206,514 

 3,608,229 



791,509 

 247,050 

 5,772,348 

 1,860,670 



610,271 



769,364 

 394,036 



8,162,848 

 256,418 

 5,841,566 



1,495,393 

 3oi,349 

 n,773,969 

 4,221,809 



982,169 

 2,383,938 

 730,432 



8,906,839 

 270,409 



6,597,780 



1,715,633 

 324,174 

 13,590,176 



4,528,388 



1,120,447 

 2,282,262 

 651,698 



Total Dead Meat 



i7,9n,738 



18,768,737 



36,149,891 



39,987,806 



The growth of the imports of fresh mutton was interrupted 

 by a slight decline in 1900, but there was a marked recovery 



