THE HOME MEAT TRADE.
■ + The "Standard" of June 22 has the following :— lt appears that the traffic In meat supplied to thia country ia generally aoremaneratiTe, Amerioan Bhippera have for a loDg time been doing badly, and there has been nothing better than boiling '■ down price In the nat returns to flock- ' masters m New Zealand and Australia for ! •heep sent m the fnzen OBroaae form. ' The River Plate producers, it has been boasted, could afford to send us supplies of frozen mutton at next to nothing ; but at the meeting of the Rlvor Plate Fresh ' Meat Company the other day a loss of ' £37,000 on ten months' trading was ad- , mitted. Prices for fat cattle at Chicago < have recently fallen to a lower point than m any year but m 1879, m oonatquenoe of the large number forced into market. Forfcf-three thousand were forwarded m a single week, and such a number gluts even the largest cattle market m the \ world. Bullocks of 13001bs to 1500 ibs live weight, have been soiling at 14a 6d ] to not quite 20s per lOOlbs as the ex- ] trome prices, the bulk going at 16* to 18s. j It is reported that there is a large supply still to come forward.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1655, 6 September 1887, Page 3
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208THE HOME MEAT TRADE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1655, 6 September 1887, Page 3
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