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Agricultural Exports of Uruguay. 



Agricultural Exports of Uruguay. 



In a report published by the Foreign Office on the trade of 

 Uruguay during 1896-7, Mr. Alfred Grenfell, Her Majesty's 

 Consul at Montevideo, states that the wealth of the country 

 consists principally in her numerous flocks and herds, which 

 have of late been greatly improved by crossings with English 

 sheep of Lincoln and Southdown breeds, and with Shorthorn 

 and Hereford bulls. The horses of the country have, to some 

 extent, been improved from the original native breeds by the 

 introduction of English horses of various types from the race- 

 horse to the cart-horse. Certain efforts have been made to 

 establish an export trade in cattle and sheep by enterprising 

 British stock farmers, but apparently with unsatisfactory 

 results, and the business seems to have come to an end. 



The principal exports from Uruguay are distributed as 

 follows : Great Britain receives nearly all the wheat, and the 

 dried and preserved tongues, all the dried blood, nearly half 

 the bones and bone-ash, one quarter of the salted hides, and 

 a small quantity of horns and of wool. Brazil imports most 

 of the flour and all. the " charque " dried salt beef, which is 

 the food of the negro population of that country. France 

 takes most of the horns, one-third of the dried hides, and 

 one-fourth of the salted hides. The remainder of the dried 

 hides are sent to Belgium and Germany. Calf skins go to 

 Portugal, sheep skins to Italy and also to France. Wool is 

 exported principally to Belgium, France, and Germany. 



Although the quantity of grain exported is not large, Mr. 

 Grenfell states that the Uruguayan farmers are beginning to 

 realise that stock-breeding may not be the most remunerative 

 industry, and it is probable that Uruguay may some day not 

 far distant become a fairly large grain-producing country. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2020. Price id.~] 



Agricultural Exports of the United States. 

 The following particulars as to the exports of agricultural 

 products from the United States in the year ending June 30, 

 1897, are taken from the Statistical Abstract recently issued 



