THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8139, 14 May 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1906.

An offloial paper on the world's meat trade, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, asserts that the entire value of meat animals and their products entering into the world's commerce is fairly represented by the total value of the imports of these articles into 11 leading countries. This amount in 1904, according to an offloial table, was 507 millions of dollars, which includes some duplication of values due to re-exports, especially from the United Kingdom to the Continent of Earope. Allowing for this duplication, and on the other hand for the small imports of countries not mentioned, the value of the world's meat trade in 1901 may be estimated at about 500 millions of dollars, a sum apparently greater than the value of the world's wheat trade. The United States is the leading source of Bupply of the meat-importing countries, being the

origin of about 40 per cent, of the entire international trade in meat animals and their products, and of iiearly 50 per cent, of the packinghouse products alone. Ihe total value of packing-house products imported from the United States into Franco and Denmark does not appear in the official statistics of those two countries, but the United States official returns during the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1904, show that the United States eent 2,000,000, dollars' worth of these articles to France, and 1,700,000 dollars' worth to Denmark. It ia regarded as a striking fact that the Unitod States supplies a larger share of the packing-house produota imported into Germany than into any other European country, Germany importing 58 per cent, from the United States, the Netherlands 57 per cent., Belgium 51 per cent., and the United Kingdom only 42 per cent. The principal part of the imports of this group of artiolea into Germany, ai well as into other countries on the Continent, consists of lard and other fats and fatty products, iu which the United States has but little competition, whilst in the British market the imports from the Unitod States have to meet the large quantities of fresh meat from Argentina, Australasia, and Canada, of bacon from Denmark, and of oleomargarine from the Netherlands.