WHERE MEAT EXTRACT IS MADE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 3

WHERE MEAT EXTRACT IS MADE.

;: OhelJof 'tlielbiggest' meat enterprises ih-.-ibe world is represented by the. America ;6f : , the ; Liebig :'Extract i.of Meat: C9mpany, which','! Tvhen'-.'fijrst formed-in_ 1868,: iinr ; Argentina?,/.Thfs'! 7 MysfiSd.bf.'.-2^494 , land.'.withv 1200,; head;, of;: horned-', cattle;'onit.-' In 1878 'the number of a'cres'was '37,961, and the number of cattle 19,036; in 1888 , the number. of'.acrf-s 'wa5"126,984: and-the number of: cattle-36;685; m 1898 the pasturo had comprised 254,133 acres, and the cattle-num-bered 66,435; while-.this' year, the respective; totals had increased 'to ;1,302,356 and -.224,-. 406. . The -company!now! therefore,< ono and a third piillion acres ; bf,'.gra6S.'lahd, 1 and, nearly,a quarter of'a-million of cattle. "Striking as thesiv figi'.res Vmajr be," 6ays ;an English; writer, "as '.'illustratir'g .the eji'or,-. ','mous yieipanffibn.; of the ; 'cattJe.-reariug try, they bccomo • still -mofe- impressive when, ..regard; is'-had'-tb'the fact' that the cattle areho longer as in Liebig's day, and, according to; his own words, .'half-wild animals,' -but; are' bred from. the choiceEt .pefligree stock* . taken- -from - tho'.'.farms- bf;:.th'e .:best: English breeders.' - Drafts' of Hereford and. Aberdeen -Arigus V bulls;,and; are rs'ent!. out, 5 -not! : merely' to '.peiTietuate., the :herds, but to im T prove ,th 6' race, -and .so to maintain /such; a,! ■superior- class' of, .beast ; as to .produce a eor- ; responding'- quality ;in the, food, product;" •