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Cattle in Paraguay. 



Two years ago attention was directed in this Journal* to 

 the increase in the consumption of 

 °of E|Is rtS foreign eggs in the United Kingdom, 

 and it was shown that our net receipts of 

 these commodities from abroad had increased in fifty years 

 from 72,000,000 to 1,586,000,000 yearly. The more recent 

 trade statistics exhibit no check to the upward progress of 

 these imports, which amounted in 1898 to nearly 

 1,731,000,000 eggs, of the declared value of £4,456,123. 



Russia was the principal contributor to this large supply 

 of the past year, her direct shipments having been in round 

 numbers 438,000,000; Germany is credited with 339,000,000 ; 

 Belgium with 282,000,000 ; France with 254,000,000; 

 Denmark with 242,000,000 ; and Canada with 89,000,000. 

 It should be noted, however, that the German consign- 

 ments consisted for the most part of the produce of 

 Russia and Austria-Hungary, and that the major portion of 

 the receipts from Belgium are Italian and Austrian eggs, 

 while the latter also form a considerable proportion of the 

 supplies entered from French ports. Among other minor 

 contributors to our imports of eggs in 1898 were the 

 United States, Spain, Portugal, Egypt, and Morocco. 



The average declared values per dozen of the consignments 

 received from the chief exporting countries were as follows : 

 France, gjd. ; Canada, 8d. ; Denmark, 8d. ; Belgium, yhd. ; 

 Germany, 6|d. ; Russia, 6-]-d. 



Cattle-breeding and grazing constitute an important 

 branch of business in Paraguay. In 

 P^ragiia^- former years cattle were imported from 

 the neighbouring Argentine province of 

 Corrientes ; but, owing to the rise in prices due to the 

 purchases made by the preserved meat factories, they cannot 

 be bought there now, and cattle of a superior breed are 

 imported from the Brazilian province of Matto Grosso. 



* Vol. III., No. 4, March, 1897. 



