Imports of Agricultural Produce. 



463 



■quantity of this corn is often liable to considerable varia- 

 tions, but so small an amount as 17,000,000 cwts. has not been 

 •entered since 1892. The decline affects all the countries 

 enumerated, but is greatest from Roumania (1,326,000 cwts., 

 as compared with 4,735,000 in the previous year) and Russia 

 (7,807,000, instead of 10,267,000 cwts.). Oats show a small 

 increase, but maize a large one ; and it has again to be recorded 

 •of Indian corn that the amount is the largest we have ever 

 received. The United States increased its contributions of 

 maize from 37,466,000 to 39,460,000 cwts. ; but the most impor- 

 tant rise was in the exports from Argentina, which were 

 7,731,000 cwts., or more than double those of the previous year. 

 Canada sent 2,600,000 cwts. less maize than in 1898. A 

 great development appears to have taken place of late years 

 in our imports of maize meal. Until 1896 on only 

 two occasions had 100,000 cwts. been received; in 1897 

 the imports were over a million, and in 1899 they reached 

 1,815,000 cwts. 



The average declared value of barley is given at 5s. 9d. 

 per cwt., or 2d. more than in 1898. The value for imported 

 ■oats comes out at 5s. 3d. fa fall of 3d.), while that of maize 

 is 4s. 2d. (a rise of 3d.) per cwt. 



Miscellaneous imports of vegetable produce are set out in 

 the following table :- — 



Tabic V. — Miscellaneous Imports of Vegetable Produce. 



Description. 



Quantities. 



A'alues. 



Onions- - - bush. 



Potatoes - - cwts. 



Vegetables, unenume- 

 rated 



Apples- 

 Pears - 



Plums - 



Cherries 



Hay - 



Straw - 



Hops - 



Flax - 



PJemp - - ,, 



Wood and Timber (ex- 

 cept Mahogany), loads 



Clover and Grass Seeds 

 cwts 



bush. 



cwts. 

 tons 



1898. 



1899. 



' 1898. 



1899. 



6,002,515 



6,751,728 



7,008,298 

 5,157,811 



£• 



792,909 

 1,913,912 



£• 



854,782 

 i ; 557,5i9 



3,458,716 

 491,669 



922,248 

 401,810 

 116,107 



71,966 

 244,136 



97,253 

 94,442 



3,861,172 

 581,832 



558,273 

 281,236 



131,504 

 64,819 



180,233 

 99,052 

 91,973 



1,680,786 

 1, 108,056 

 221,779 

 434.666 

 230,828 



1,030,140 

 2,932,646 

 2.308,480 



1,744,068 

 1.186,143 

 266,351 

 294,052 

 153,642 



809,842 



2.927.355 

 2,663,547 



8,834,232 



9,429,019 



20,592.754 



22,iS7,So6 



34 2 ,773 



299,268 



655.211 



594.535 



