44,822 —­
|
Wheatmeal |
and Flour ... | 50,597 5,407,119 80 809,479 119,440
|
Oatmeal and |
Rolled Oats ... | —­ 183,334 —­ 207,516 —­
|
Farinaceous sub- |
stances (except |
Starch, Farina, |
Dextrine, and |
Potato Flour) | —­ 99,112 —­ 59,302 —­
|
Bran and Pollard | 11,932 —­ —­ —­ —­
|
Sharps and |
Middlings | 35,113 —­ —­ —­ —­
|
Maize Meal | —­ 129,543 —­ —­ —­
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-----
L 20,284,228 | 19,523,587 | 7,317,626 | 7,823,090 | 2,524,773
----------------+------------+-----------+-----------+------
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Percentage 28.53% | 27.46% | 10.29% | 11.00% | 3.56%
----------------+------------+-----------+-----------+------
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Other
Colonies and
Foreign Total. 
Countries.

L L
13,630,183[C] 71,103,487

---------------+-------------+
13,630,183    | 71,103,487  |
---------------+-------------+
19.16%       | = 100%      |
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* * * * *

Meat, including animals for food, and fresh, chilled, frozen and tinned, imported into and retained by the United Kingdom in 1908: 

L Per Cent.

Argentina supplied 9,285,545 or 19.07
U.S.A. " 18,705,548 " 38.41
Russia " 76,981 " 0.16
Canada " 4,084,113 " 8.38
Australia (including Tasmania)
          supplied 1,995,471 " 4.10
Other Colonies and Foreign
Countries supplied[D] 14,556,955 " 29.88

48,704,613 " 100.00

The lesson shown here is one worthy of attention.  We see that Argentina supplies England with one-fourth of her imported food, and U.S.A. supplies nearly one-third.  Therefore it behoves both England and Argentina to see that America does not so manipulate things that she acquires the control over our meat and food supplies.

Argentine authorities should not only exercise the law sanctioned February 4th, 1907, concerning the inspection of factories, but they should enforce greater care in seeing that all Argentine saladeros and packing-houses are manipulated with intense care, and cleanliness should be insisted upon; it would be a bad day for Argentina should ever such an outcry be raised against her saladeros as that which a few years ago was directed against the North American packing houses and for a time ruined the canning industry of the United States, and yet we find American methods being introduced into Argentina without let or hindrance.  If our soldiers and sailors are to be fed upon canned meats, let those who are responsible for purchasing the food, at least see that the food is prepared under healthy and sanitary conditions.