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Show Less Beef, More Bacon. The London Mont Trades' Journal figures that the United Kingdom Imports Im-ports ot American nnd Canadian entitle ent-itle Bhow an 18 per cent, decrease for the first five months ot this year, compared com-pared with last year, and 29 V4 per cent, with 190G. The American shipments ship-ments of refrigerated beef fell off 404,470 hundredweight (of 112 pounds each) compared with the 1907 period, while the total lncreoso of 30,889 was due, to the heavy consignments from Argentina. A substantial Increase ot 337,238 hundredweight In tho weight of bacon Is duo to tho heavier shipments ship-ments from the United States, the supplies from Canada and other countries coun-tries being less. |