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milk,  although  large,  has  not  increased  since  1900.  The 
Netherlands  supplies  us  with  by  far  the  greatest  quantity  of 
sweetened  condensed  whole  milk  and  nearly  all  the  separated 
milk,  France,  Norway,  Belgium,  and  Italy  being  also  consider- 
able contributors  of  the  former.  Norway  stands  first  with  the 
unsweetened  article,  followed  by  France.  In  recent  years  milk 
powder  has  been  imported  to  an  increasing  extent,  chiefiy  from 
Denmark  and  France.  Most  of  the  cream  is  sent  by  France, 
Norway  being  second  in  the  quantity  supplied  to  this  country. 
The  quantity  has  not  at  all  greatly  increased  since  1900. 
Wool. 
It  is  hardly  necessary  to  state  that  Australia  is  by  far  the 
greatest  exporter  of  wool  to  this  country.  New  Zealand  stands 
second,  and  would  be  in  the  top  place  if  the  several  states  of 
Australia  were  referred  to  separately,  as  the  Dominion  stands 
above  even  New  South  Wales.  South  Africa  is  third  in 
quantity  of  supplies,  and  India,  in  some  years,  and  Argentina, 
in  others,  is  fourth,  followed  by  Chile  and  France.  Other 
sources  of  supply  are  numerous  ; but  no  country,  other  than 
those  named  above,  contributes  as  much  as  10,000,000  lb. 
towards  our  great  quantity  of  imports.  We  export  nearly  half 
as  much  wool  as  we  import. 
Manukes. 
Apart  from  nitrate  of  soda  and  guano,  most  of  the  manures 
we  import  are  raw  materials  for  their  manufacture.  Nearly  all 
the  nitrate  of  soda  comes  from  Chile,  though  Germany  con- 
tributes a small  quantity  ; and  Peru  is  the  main  source  of  our 
supply  of  guano.  Of  basic  slag  we  import  very  little,  less 
than  10,000  tons  having  been  received  in  1908.  Bones  for 
manufacturing  arrive  from  a great  many  countries,  India  and 
Argentina  being  the  only  extensive  contributors.  The  greatest 
shippers  of  phosphate  of  lime  and  rock  phosphate  to  this 
country  are  unspecified  islands  in  the  Pacific  and  the  United 
States,  followed  by  Algeria,  France,  Belgium,  and  Dutch 
Colonies.  Germany  is  by  far  the  most  important  contributor 
of  unspecified  manures,  and  particularly  potash. 
Implements  and  Machines. 
The  classification  of  our  imports  of  implements,  tools,  and 
machines  is  not  as  definite  as  could  be  desired.  Under 
“ implements  and  tools  ” there  is  no  distinction  between 
those  of  the  agricultural  and  other  classes  ; but  it  may  be 
assumed  that  the  implements  are  nearly  all  agricultural,  and, 
as  to  tools,  machine  tools  are  excluded.  More  than  three- 
fourths,  judging  froni  values,  which  alone  are  given,  are 
