490 Twenty Years' Changes in our Foreign Meat Supplies. 
Year or Period. 
United 
Kingdom. 
FfiANCE. 
Belgium. 
Imports. 
Imports. 
Exports. 
Imports. 
Exports. 
Avpvow nf 18fi7— 7fi 
209 
183 
55 
69 
32 
1877-81 
282 
230 
194 
130 
45 
Year 1882 
344 
195 
63 
103 
45 
473 
216 
68 
126 
52 . 
425 
177 
63 
108 
57 
,,1885 
373 
152 
58 
127 
52 
„ 1886 
318 
on international trade, working out in each case the balances 
shown on either side. They will illustrate in the form I have 
arranged them which were the cattle-importing and which the 
cattle-exporting countries of the Continent in 1871 and 1884, 
years sufficiently near the beginning and the end of the 
period I have had under review to serve my present purpose : — 
Import and Expokt of Cattle in thousands (to one place of decimals). 
1871. 
(000 omitted.) 
1884. 
(000 omitted.) 
Balance 
of 
E.\ ports. 
Balance 
of 
Imports. 
Total 
Exports. 
Total 
Imports. 
Countries. 
'J'otal 
Impoits. 
Total 
Exports. 
Balance 
of 
Imports. 
Balance 
of 
Exports. 
246-9 
1-6 
248-5 
United Kingdom 
425-5 
3-1 
422-4 
195-5 
12-6 
208-1 
France 
176-8 
63-5 
113-3 
51 5 
19-9 
71-4 
B(l<;ium . . 
107-9 
56-7 
51-2 
43-7 
62-9 
106-6 
Switzerland 
127-1 
751 
52-0 
59-7 
290 2 
230-5 
(Jermany .. 
110-6 
235-9 
125-3 
si -7 
140-9 
172-6 
Austro-llungary 
61-2 
121-1 
59-9 
222 '4 
223-9 
1-5 
Holland . . 
1-9 
132-1 
130-2 
34-5 
45-1 
10-6 
Denruavk .. 
20-3 
117-2 
96-9 
141 1 
161-2 
20-1 
Italy 
57-4 
71-0 
13-6 
14-1 
14-3 
•2 
Swedea 
3-8 
.S9-1 
35-3 
66-6 
60-6 
Kus>ia 
27-0 
* . . 
27-0 
27-3 
27-3 
Servia 
24-7 
24-7 
565-7 
569-3 
i 
Total.. .. 
638-9 
512-9 
Of course, as will easily be seen, no such table can be really 
exhaustive, but taking it for what it is worth it materially 
strengthens the inference I have drawn as to the changed posi- 
tion of Europe as a whole. At the earlier date the wants of one 
country are nearly balanced by the surplus in another. The 
small margin of excess of imports in 1871 may perhaps be 
set down to Algerian receipts. By 1884 the surplus or exports 
of the exporting countries fail to meet the needs of their Euro- 
