A RIVAL TO FROZEN MEAT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1043, 7 January 1884, Page 4

A RIVAL TO FROZEN MEAT.

Li_i!jlllL__LijX_ii_|iiiM T iirniiii *' ■' rr -if as*.*:*. --— 4rbe N. B. - Agnnuturaiut recently had the following notes on a new meat >1 importation to England:—There is at last a prospect of the safe introduction of meat from European . countries to Britain being satisfactorily y solved. AgriculturaU|{avwlio have been urging Government' KT's'top importations, of live stock from < aU. ; .CPuntries in which disease of any infectious' nature exists, f hay§ been met by the assurance that so • thorobgh measdres would' deprive this country of nearly all the European meat supplies, which this country, it is assertedj -coold not afford. " Many of us have contended,, and,still believe, that what might be' iosijhj^be 1 shape of live stock would be nearly all gained in the form of increased dead meat arrivals. That is denied by those engaged in the trade and adverse to the farmers’ demands, and seemsi to be feared by the Priv* .Government. Consequently, the advocates p£, greater immunity from imported diseases have not accomplished their purpose*; "they have not gotfoUr/'poife; shut* .against live stock from T all foreign countries, there Hs hiore or less danger. A systemnf dead-meatimportation from Russia has just been begun, and its progress will be watched with exceptional has started well, and if it as there l r t® fexpect, the sup. pollers or the present partially danw gerotnhhwmgemems will find the feet -taken from them, Their ground has n’bijhertqbeenthatdead meat could not or at least would not, be substituted for the live stock imports if the latter were stopped. There.is, however, a probability of that‘ position not being much longer tenable. .iSfiJfeafaSPl import? referred to nave been landed m London in capital condition by a specially formed company. Several cargoes have already reached the British market. The meat Is not frozen,;, it is . transported in cool 'tinder' the refrigerating process, and the sea voyage of 1,000 miles is performed in four days. The meat per: lb wholesale in the ?iii)Nfdua mhtkeP, and at this figure, after deducting expenses, it is stated the company have a profit of id per lb Even less than that wpuld> ensure the continuance and development of the system. Anyhow, the company are making arrangements for increasing the shipments of fr|shyineat from the Baltic to Britain. It is also in view to import eggs, etc, in large quantities. Farmers do not complain of the introduction -of food so long as it reaches, us-'by-safe means, as these are calculated to do. OffOffl of British herds and flocks are likely to welcome than to Baltic fresh meat trade. meat ‘can be brought from the in good condition, ate has ’lately been demonstrated, bow much more easily can it belauded OSo'dir Germany and other countries not nearly so far. away as Russia? The sea journey would not.qccppy half the time, and ■’thlf meat would 'reach ‘ihe market in ...a better-ftale r than could be/ expected from ftstantcountries. A thoroughly established ; dead meat trade would in all probability- bring njgre meat than has hitherto come' ihto •the English and Scotch markets. That wotrld 'te a national gain, but -the-

greatest achievement would be the.pro-, tection from disease which wtmld thSrethe United Kingdom. This is what many haye been laboring hard Jor jdur-; *ftfii ttfeyHsPTed’ or 1 it is .be very long delayed; rsX;:<&£*nso aUgappearance, successful [Russian dead meat pres sently attracting sp. much public attended,■ rj iAgriculfurlsts Sincerely’wish the all 1 , .prosperity; They very closely, as it a little bit ofblue sky, so to speak; in.the vexa-■liouasttnatter-bf pToteclion, ■ not from ■ from imported disur.-