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EXPORTS OF BRITISH LIVE STOCK. 



There has been during the past rive years a noteworthy 

 increase in the annual value of the exports of British and 

 Irish live stock. This improvement is to be credited almost 

 entirely to larger shipment of horses, though sheep also 

 participated in the advance. 



In 1894 the declared value of the aggregate outward 

 consignments of all kinds of home-bred farm stock, exclusive 

 of poultry, was /,652,40a, and it has since risen to over 

 ^IjOOOjOOO. The number of animals represented by these 

 sums is given in the following statement, which shows the 

 annual exports of each class of stock with the declared 

 values. 



Years. 



Horses. 



Cattle. 



Sheep. 



Swine. 





No. 



No. 



No. 



No. 



1894- 



16457 



8,280 



4,638 



1,368 



1895- - - 



21,564 



7,951 



6,966 



3,069 



1896- 



29,414 



4,369 



9,512 



359 



1897- - - 



34,471 



3,776 



11,569 



214 



1898- 



36,412 



2,861 



10,224 



434 



Value. 





£ 



449,804 



£ 



£ 



£ 



1894- 



135,125 



39,522 



7,921 



1895- 



549,882 



132,413 



59,760 



13,956 



1896- 



671,332 



122.004 



107..507 



2,847 



1897- - - 



825,246 



119-548 



147-714 



1,700 



1898- 



842,106 



94,414 



120,310 



3,231 



Although the increase shown in the case of horses may be 

 said to be a continuation of a movement which has been in 

 progress, with fluctuations, for the past twenty years, the 

 growth during the period covered by the above statement 

 represents a remarkable advance in this trade and merits some 



