Argentina's Imports of Breeding Stock. 515 



the growing prosperity of the manufacturing industries ; the 

 decentralisation of the grain trade by its diversion to other 

 ports, of which Nikolaiev is the most important ; the limited 

 grain producing area of the rich black soil of South Russia, 

 and low yield per acre, which is fast becoming insufficient to 

 meet the requirements of a rapidly increasing population ; 

 the primitive methods of cultivation of the Russian peasant ; 

 and the unfavourable climatic influences on the crops. 



[Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series, No. 2,366 Price 2v></.] 



According to the official returns of the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture, Argentina, the imports of breed- 



I^ort^of 8 ing St ° ck int ° the Re P ublic in l8 9 8 

 Breeding* Stock. included 482 cattle, 6,206 sheep, and 73 



horses from the United Kingdom. 



Among the cattle were 408 Durhams, 30 Herefords, 10 Red 



Polled, 10 Dexter Kerrys, 9 Polled Angus, and 6 Jerseys. 



The sheep comprised 5,715 Lincolns, 223 Shropshires, 63 



Hampshires, 54 Oxford Downs, 35 South Downs, and 26 



Su {folks. The horses were mainly Hackneys and Clydesdales ; 



there were also 5 Cleveland Bays and 4 Shire horses. 



The Annual Report of the Ontario Bureau of Industries 



contains an estimate of the produce of 



Creameries and the creameries and cheese factories in 

 Cheese Factories „ _ 



in Ontario. Ontario in 1 898. From this it appears 



that the number of creameries, including 



skimming stations, which were in operation in that year, was 



282, being an increase of 68 over the previous season. 



Returns of the actual amount of butter made and other 



particulars were obtained from 109 of these, and on this basis 



the estimated out-turn of the total number was 9,008,992 pounds, 



or 1,300,727 pounds in excess ef the output of 214 creameries 



in the previous year. The number of farmers supplying milk 



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