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average value per head of horned cattle exported from Canada 
increased from 5/. in 1874, to 13/. in 1884, though, of course, 
the reduction in the cost of transportation, and the better and 
more rapid methods of transit, have not been without their 
influence in this direction. The following Table shows the total 
exports of cattle and sheep from Canada in the years 1874 and 
1884 respectively : — 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Numbei'. 
Value. 
Number. 
Value. 
18S4 
1874 
Increase during tbe'i 
90,664 
39,623 
£ 
1,182,578 
190,254 
304,474 
252.081 
£ 
309,230 
140,513 
51,041 
992,324 
52,393 
168,717 
This great trade in living animals has only been rendered 
possible by the clean bill of health which the Dominion enjoys ; 
and I have shown what scrupulous care is taken to preserve 
this precious privilege. 
As regards the dairy industry, the present position of the 
Canadian cheese trade can hardly be regarded as other than 
highly creditable to the Dominion, demonstrating, as it does, 
how successful cheese-makers have become in their efforts to 
produce a superior article of uniform qualit}'. It is just the 
reverse with the butter-making industry ; but it must be apparent, 
from what has been stated under this head, that Canadian dairy- 
farmers are fully aware of their inferiority as butter-makers, and 
that measures which are now in progress will doubtless, in a few 
years' time, effect a needed and salutary change in the quality, 
and consequently in the quantity, of Canadian butter available 
for export. The following figures present a picture of the fluc- 
tuations in the trade in Canadian dairy produce during the last 
Total Exports of Cheese and Butter from Canada. 
CiirF-si.. 
liL'ITEE. 
Lbs. 
Value. 
Lbs. 
Viilue. 
1884 .. .. 
1874 .. .. 
Increase . . 
75,835,557 
24,050,982 
£ 
1,564,724 
704,640 
1884 .. 
1874 .. 
8,473,976 
12,233,046 
£ 
334,953 
524,061 
51,784,575 
860,084 
Decrease 
3,759,070 
189,108 
