A BIG BEEF RIVAL

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 25 January 1912, Page 8

A BIG BEEF RIVAL

MOVEMENT IN BHAZtTi. Cable information was recently received that an American-Canadian syndicate has acquired 9,000,000 acres of land in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the establishment of the world's largest boot' project. Possibly few Australians paid much notice to this cable, ami none of tho daily papers gave it a thought, or if they 'did they kept it to themselves, says the "Pastoraiists' Review." l'or some years Australian beef has been losing its hold of the British market until it has reached almost a vanishing point; in fact, Argentina now ships as much beef in six weeks as A intra ha does in a year. Australians have iiad visions, however, of .1 big demand shortly for their beef for the United States, and now comes the above cable to shatter those hopes. The possibilities of.a Brazilian frozen beef export trade are very excellent. They have the basis in vast herds of native cattle, and in from ten to twelve years these could be unproved 'marvellously; Argentina has (lone it to perfection in twenty year.'?, and their beef is now second to none at Snuthfield. It is only a matter of importing high-class bulls and judicious breeding. Brazil will be in a position to supply the United Stale? better than any other country, excepting possibly Mexico. The length of time a steamer would take from Eio to New York would be about fourteen days, and when the Panama Canal is opened, say, eighteen days to San Francisco, so tho news in this cable is of great moment to all the breeders of cattle in Australia.