Argentine Export Trade
The export trade from Argentina is said to be suffering from the poor price of fat stock. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the Australasian Pastoralists Review, writing under date 3rd February, reports that " steers and wethers are a drug in the market ; everyone has them fat, everyone is in want of money, or nearly everyone, so they all sell, and the consequence is that the supply is considerably greater than the demand. So far tli6 only people who are making money this year ar« the exporters. But they again, owing to the abundant supply have become fastidious, they will only look at the very best ; thus this year heaps of men who last year bred stock which fetched from £1 to .£8 for the English market, this year have to sell for home consumption at prices ranging from £4 to £6." The principal exports from all parts in the Argentine Republic during the year 1895 were :— Wheat, 1,---046,000 tons; maize, 804,509 tons; linseed, 255,249 tons ; wool, 212,983 tons; flour, 1,177,308 bags; hides, 3,693,366; frozen wethers, 1,968,249; livo steers, 125,839 ; live sheep, 477,121.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 258, 6 May 1896, Page 2
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185Argentine Export Trade Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 258, 6 May 1896, Page 2
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