ANOTHER MEAT COMPETITOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 10

ANOTHER MEAT COMPETITOR.

■.; THE CHIXAMAN.: '- ;: ' .;-.Ppi;bapk.oii"its surface .tho reported arrival brli'cargo'bf Chinese frozen meat in Enginul'may. appear insignificant.: The .'quantities were voiy small;-and were mostly, pork .and small goods. Only an experimental lino of beef was iamletl. What, deserves some refioctioni-ihowevcr, is the enormous scope for expahsioii.bf a tvbzen<meat i industry that- the; huge' Chinese 'Empire' :sesses. '-China may, perhaps,. have some difficulty. ; in indubiug British ': people •tb "Vat its frozen beef and mutton,iif it.produced any, but largo, importations of ■;■ Chinese';.pork and gamp-'could indirectly I .':affect ow'.'t own;-rmeat it.-'. '! -vThpSchairniau of thai P: and. 0.,' Shippinev ■ Conyisnj',: ji'lio enthusiastic -.over '■ aha; p'rospect.rof a Chinese -.moat rf.'trade, ' .said-' i '.iecetltly that'rthere were practically unlimited'.'•jiippMs in;', China. ■ If China, is going to'-ide'-' ivclop ;with,-the rapidity which •'■: Japan Kis' and' to turn its attention fo tho mciit -industry,-,what: we have; seen'of the Chinanian as a. nl'arket-gardencr'a'ml, yegetablerhawker ivill givoour meat interests''some, misgivings. • the..Chinese exporter has not yet learned'-to "dress", his.'.ment with the same skill as he displays,-in', his shop window, • for .a writer .in "the .''Meat Trades Journal,'.commenting on, ..,meat by- Messrs.'.fitter .and. Sons, said:—"As nil .experiment.in 1-ofrigeratlbn-.the...shipment was perfectly satisfactory, 'arid "whether.; if cah : be' made, a ■ remunerative' business'- reriiains to be seen. There are: difficulties in. the; way other ttan. .the foreign.vmeat regulations, not the ' least. of'-which, is .-..the.- whicb 'exists' against thiS'pork... Correspondence in' tho press ..recently pointed/out that no- European in' China would "touch,' taste,': or"' haridloythd product .'of native pig."- .' .: ".';. THE HEREFORD BREEDERS' CHALLENGE. ;-;:':/ v TCK BE?AGAIN ISSUEb. y :■';".-'.' -It was stated ai the annnaPmeeting of tho Heroford Cattlo. Breeders" Association,-hold at i'eildmg last week, that, 'sonie': time ' ago," a general challenge had been' issued■:'.to .pit the Jlerefords. against ;uny oth'cr''" breeds as beefprodncers.,, -Tho conditions laid "down were that a -number of yearling' bullocks -should be put in y a paddock with a'.'similar number of any other' breed, kept there'fo'r. two years, and ■ then exhibited, killed", frozen; and sold on .the London market. The. challenge'had not been taken up,.and the secretary (Mr. G K. Sykes) t was asked-to issue- it- again, and also to write to leading breeders of other kinds Of: cattle. :.,- '.. ',