IMPORTS OF LIVE STOCK TO ENGLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 4

IMPORTS OF LIVE STOCK TO ENGLAND.

The extent of our dependence upon imports of foreign live stock is In ought homo with conchisho foico by statistical tablci just issued by the Agncultuial Depaitment. The m<nt impoi tint market is, of course, that of the metropolis, where the consumption is immense, and we find th.it, to take cattle, a? an example — it is tlio foreigner who hi\s kept pace with the demand. In 187!) the proportion of foieign cattle sent into the metropolis w.ii 38 piM cent., whereas in 1883 it rose to fl(i percent. In 1875) England 'upphod 200,210 head, and foreign countries lad, 140 head; but in 1883 the home supply had pome down to 12(5,730, while that fiom abroad had lisen to 1(53, 800. The c.ibe is even more staking with othci animals. Of sheep, in 1883, the foieign"r sent in 03 per cent, and his piopoition of swine was !>7. There .ue many other markets besides tie nictiopolitan, and -i>mo of them do nut fall far behind in the magnitude of their foieign lne-slock business. There .ue, alto^ethci, 21 poits of entiv gi\cn in the letiru for (Jii'it I3iit.ii>>. London received li~>,o f >7 cittle m 1883, ]N T ewcastle-on-Tyne 110,2'n, Li\oipo>l 105.817, and d'l.is-ou .T),.507. And the trade has c\ery\vheie been steadily growing, Livcipool h.is doubled, Newcastle trebled, and Glasgow <iuu\tupled thcii iespective nnmbci-> since 187.). If we add sheep and swine to the cow-, the figiues .vie necessarily still l.uger. London, in 1883, received altogether lie id ; Ln erpool, 213,0')0 head; Newcastle, l!)rf,3Si head ; Hull, 57,810 head ; H.n\\icli, 5\202 head: Glasgow, -I!),'!!!! head, and Kaitlepool, 41,4(58 head. Germany alone dm ing the year provided London with o\ei 100,000 sheep, while the Nothei lands contabuted 213,000 and Belgium 00,000. The total number of annnaK lec^ived m (rieat Britain was 1,<»2 1,882. The number found to be diseased, and consequently slaughteied at the landing wliaif, was only 2,021— an insignificant piopoition of so gi<ut a whole. Tt is interesting to .idd that we leccived during the same pcnod 1, 178,()13 fiom Ireland, because il pio\es that while the people of Gioat Butrun h.ue need of .ill the live stock the liish lc.ucis can sp.ue, tlie trndo witii foreign countnes has mci eased to even n. liighei aggiecr.ite tlian that with Ireland.— Li »'ci pool Me: cm y.