EXPORT OF BACON.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 8

EXPORT OF BACON.

% ; N.S.W. SHIPMENTS TO LONDON. ■ -'■''". During -the 'last three -months the ■:; 'coiTespoiJHent. of: the, Sydfiijj >S '■'.- . , ' r referred .several '' <? v ,times fe the snirjmehts- of' bacon ' forr " -. .'warded,-ffom'' : Sydney, conveying the - ;.-;,' comments' of .'the\trado .on .the quality f. ;> A and i'gefcup ; of ;the {-.:0 j -:A {vyThe:New' South .-': '5.'; ''Agricultufe, '.now advises having receiy-: s '■'.'■'. edT'a .'report, from. '■ the Agent-General v I'. stating that tho bacon had Kept well r : : and. arrived ■ in: London in very good'-' •>>l condition.. Ho goes oh'to say that in consequence of' the; fact.-that ;Canada ■?'4 is.now sending large quantities of her -;;'--'bacon "to, the'' United States; the Eng- ! ; : ■;;:■' Hsh; market: is 'net : being, as ■ well sup- { 'as hitliertoV'iud.' that; the opppr- ■■ ■■ producers- ■'• ■'■ : ./.is-.a- gopd-ohe.. . If a first-class- article ' v' r '' r were.-.supplied^hV- : 'is' of.-; opinion ~ that .' ;'. .'there should be';rid 'difficulty in.rapidly ' , : .;; disposing of it', with •■'• satisfactory ■ re- ■ •;sults.'''He, suggests ,that it.Mvould. be '" : . ■ well to have the aitcb and blade bones ■ ( ;takeri out and the created thereby '■ .-filled with salt prior to shipment,- as'the .'■•'.presenceof tlie,blade .boiio J takes too < '■ 'jnuch"off the middle, and if it were re- 'j J -moved : a higher'cut'could be made, - thus ; y ' leaving• more meaV attached- 'to''t!io ; ' : :-:"-" ! zdiddle. ', ''.".,',,. '•>■..'"■'•' i '■;': "The "Telegraph"' correspondent' in his ; -.a reports:also mentioned the:.prejudice ■< ■;■. against the aitch and, blade bones,being '. ; "J,;'! left in,'and,' further,' to the "preference '; '.'"for singeing over scraping in the dress- : -'ing'of the-'pigs. In'the advices received ] •,, by-the" shippers, however, not ' much ';-.'• "stress islaid upon those points, audit , .":-',.'" is :plain from the reports- to hand that. ;:;-].'-.'tbe colonial manner of dressing did not, "-,- arid will, not, detrimentally'affect sales.-...-:;;.Muchv'stronger'.'cqmplaintsTwere, raised ■ '- ' against "the- bacon-•being:,;o.yer-salt,' and" ';■": there is little' ! _doubt'that 'this- detract-- ~' appreciably, from-its valued The. ■>','-'■ gre'at. : ,drawback-..t0.: the .success : .of, the' -''.'■ .trade, however, is intermittent ship's'S'me'nts.-', The. improvement-in the mar-;-..'ket.here: since..the spring has rendered .;;'.."-;" shipping out of the question, as prices. -have' gono relatively 3d. per'lb.,better. ■-,;..than-London values. The 'outlook ap- ),:-, pears-to be that. London offers an out- ';':'. -let- wheneverHhe shipper here is pre- '.. Spared to accept sid. ; to 6d.' per lb. net ; for heavy weights, going from 56 to Go *.? or even.7s lb.-the side. The, London , ;-.;';agcnts state that 500 sides a week are ->> :tq enable a regular demand to !'-,'.-/ be .established- for 'New South Wales :■/;;''bacon. It-could then be sold as such, .;:.. end, buyers would "look for it.'.