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Exports of British Live Stock. 



merino of little value for export, turned their attention to 

 English breeds, and particularly to the Lincoln sheep. 

 Between 1884 and 1894 nearly all the sheep held in the 

 south of the province of Buenos Ayres were converted from 

 Merino into Lincoln.* The Leicester, Cotswold, and 

 Romney Marsh breeds have also been introduced, but 

 in a smaller degree. Oxford Downs, Southdowns, and 

 Hampshire Downs are to be found in limited numbers, 

 chiefly in the lucerne lands of the province of Santa Fe, 

 where they appear to do well. 



Pure-bred sheep are also exported from the United King- 

 dom to Germany, France, the United States, the Cape, 

 Australia, Uruguay, and occasionally to other countries. A 

 new feature of some interest is the recent demand for British 

 rams for cross-breeding purposes in Russia. This is con- 

 nected, according to Mr. Mackie, Her Majesty's Consul- 

 General at Odessa, with the endeavours made by the Russian 

 Imperial Agricultural Society to create out of the merino 

 sheep a mutton sheep suitable for the British and French 

 markets. The Russian Government has assisted the move- 

 ment by assigning a small grant for the purchase of rams of 

 English breeds. 



In most of the countries named above, the restrictions on 

 the importation of British sheep for breeding purposes are 

 confined to the inspection of the animals by a veterinary 

 surgeon at the port of arrival. But the regulations in force 

 in most of the Australasian colonies contain the further 

 requirements that sheep, and other animals, imported from the 

 United Kingdom must be accompanied by a declaration in a 

 prescribed form of their freedom from disease ; and that, if 

 found to be healthy on reaching the colony, they shall be 

 placed in quarantine for sixty days at the owners' expense. 



* See Foreign Office Report, Miscellaneous Series, No. 369, 1895. Also 

 *' The History of the Sheep-breeding Industry in the Argentine Republic," byll. Gibson. 



