386 
Canadian Agriculture. 
The total annual value of the cattle shipped from Canada 
seven or eight years ago was less than 80,000Z. The value of 
the imports of live-stock from Canada into the United King- 
dom during the last two years, is returned by the Board of 
Trade as follows : — 
1883. 
1884. 
Oxen and Bulls 
Sheep and Lambs . . 
£ 
1,115,470 
24,159 
137 
215,742 
6 
£ 
1,260,465 
40,351 
122 
125,841 
149 
£1,355,514 
£1,426,928 
Although I was in Montreal only for a week in August, I 
noticed nearly every day large droves of cattle on their way to 
the wharves on the banks of the St. Lawrence for shipment in 
the Atlantic steamers, and it is hardly possible in the summer 
to cross from Liverpool to Quebec without sighting one or more 
steamers laden with cattle for Glasgow or Liverpool. The 
following statement presents another view of the export trade 
in Canadian cattle, as it specifies the port of shipment, and 
shows the number and value of horned cattle shipped at the 
several ports mentioned : — 
Yeae. 
ilontreal. 
Quebec. 
Halifax. 
Xo. 
Value. 
No. 
Xo. 
Value. 
1879 
17,616 
£ 
280,560 
2,716 
£ 
28,425 
22 
£ 
252 
ISSO 
27,474 
401,633 
4,313 
35 , 377 
913 
15,«13 
1881 
33,665 
456,296 
11,761 
107,205 
2,408 
47,925 
1882 
30,243 
397,663 
7,385 
71,630 
3,296 
64,318 
1883 
33,946 
580,626 
1,593 
20,755 
1,064 
20,493 
1SS4 
57,552 
1,438,800 
680 
17,000 
3,611 
90,275 
Total 
200,496 
£3,555,578 
28,448 
£286,392 
11,314 
239,170 
Whence is derived the following summary (p. 367) of the 
number and value of the horned stock shipped from the ports 
specified during the six years 1879 to 1884. 
Live-Stock Quarantine. — The privilege that Canada enjoys in 
the immunity of her live-stock from disease is one that she docs 
well to guard with the utmost jealousy, and all cattle entering 
