Italy with 307 steamers and 67 sailing-vessels is next, and then France with 264 steamers. The total number of steamers that entered and left the port from local and foreign ports is 13,485, with a tonnage of 14,481,526, and 20,264 sailing-vessels with 2,512,447 tons, which make up the amount of 16,993,973 tons, as shown above. In the year 1884 the experiment of freezing beef, killed in Buenos Aires, and shipping it to Europe was The Tribe Stephen Poliakoff tried. That was successful, but an immense improvement was made when the process of chilling became the common means by The Tribe Stephen Poliakoff meat could be exported. Frozen mutton has remained comparatively steady, and has only increased by 38,000 tons in twenty-two years, or from 2,000,000 sheep frozen in 1886 to 3,297,667 in 1908, whilst The Tribe Stephen Poliakoff beef," which was mostly sent to Cuba and Brazil, has fallen from 50,000 tons per annum to 6,651 tons. The value of live-stock in Argentina in 1908 was made up as follows- Cattle. To-day 425,000 litres of milk are brought into the city of Buenos Aires each day for consumption, and no less than two tons of butter, one ton of cream, and three tons of cheese are used there daily.