ENGLAND'S MUTTON TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 8

ENGLAND'S MUTTON TRADE.

INTEKESTING LONDON FIGURES " . •-"Tarmcr and.' Stockbreeder" (London),' if; ;Vj. ' Por the first timo.for very ■: sU?%iiio live!: sKeep:>liaT6 , ;MenUmported > i i afid:sa. tho whole of'-tho'- mutton supply;; for the past; hall-year, lias' been brought here in f-Mk thei iarcassiiftThef supply!}-qf. mutton \re-. . ccived : .during the past has. been. 6ponding period of. 1808, but: its declared v: u: -' .valu©vshows.aii increase: 0f'6.45 per cent,; »#lv'ii»dicaj3^ ; ?.an' :|'int .; .-...0ur Homo :flockmastcrs-'cannot "afford to : . rat .on . their laiifels, bat\must .maintain 'f£M ;the (improvement! in :tlito^stq^V,ptKer , wise; : the..importcKl 'mutton win.b'e;stronger,'in;, atV;tko'; 'present j|- s v i. • Vy.. Tho following table,- - which '^covers... a: . periods of ten.'years; .will. give's an; indiga-decieSsei-iM v '.. V•• •.'!'.'.'; ; ■> l : .{imported.' with the - • ■V ~;'" 'Period. - Quantity eairid period ?4w.» pre--. - Jan. to June, 1901' 2,226,089 +11.51 i' •*' • Jan. to Juno,: 1904 1,842,808 -.17.21 . . i -Jan. to June, 1907 2,466,085 +1181 , : j;}iW'Jandto".'Jtoe^l9o9V^',''2,92o,Bß4.\V.v t +Sl'.76:vV Jan..to June/ 1910, . .'2,844,073 - ;2.62 ■ "iis;siiis^lar,' i 'thafe^ . the increase in: the '.supply '' of preserved •■ •. ,:beef"wo have also:• ;dn,iequally; • : ; 'large increase .in' < the'..quantity .of ;preeerved mutton—namoly,. 57.48 per.'cent— , . '.tho quantity imported having been 79,953 Sfji;; cwt." this year,' asr against .47,593 cwt. in [ .' tho same period,of;lßo?i'.' ;...' •. . -VWI ' •.;:,!. The' Australasian. supplies reached• thov."... unprecedented quantity, for the. first, six 'months of the year of-828,784..cwt.,--or. .-.>;.40.71' : per,. cent; morei■'than.' inj'tho year' '*lm :.1909;i Vißry/inearly''-.double';, the;: quantity: •'. • V.imported.froni this'source'of •siipplydur::fc ;ing the . same. period -of the,-year *V ; •-• Ss £?yNTh&'£New; v'Zealand cwt.—.were/on tho other .'hand, less than .' V:in*tho same, period of; 1909 by •'6.38 per cent. ; The Uruguayan supplies,' ais is :the . .case' -in respect to ;beef< from ..the 'samo ; country, jshpwi'a :large ; increase/t64;s2o.'cvyt.) •• ; being sent'us.' during the- half-year, -or' 34.43 per cent more than., in .'IBO9, and -.- -;. 'znbro than double. tho quantity supplied • ; -. from this source, during 1905.' Tho Argen- • -.-!-;. : tine -.supplics^lS^?,- • cwt—were y.the : -. .Bmalleat' for. tlio first sis months ; since :S.fr> !^.the>year A l9ol, when 609,498 were sent. . '.siVr/rhe.'Dutch .'shipments? were,19.68. !per!,'cent less than.twelve ttonthvpfwbnsly;■:'fTie , ■• ; . . remainder camel from' countries not separ-' ■• r ately enumerated; > .•■' . . ' ... . Tho total declared value of the mutton. .-' ,imported during tho .- past ".' six months hßi's'.reached total, or ' ' 6.27 per cent-more, than'the 'cbrrespo'nd■V4"'s'R,ing;.tot^:,f6r?tte!''sMß .'• -the -'. largest .on record : for . this period of' ; : f};%%the year. . -; : 'v;v