AMERICAN MEAT MARKET.
Tiie ultiniato disappearance of the United States of America as a source of meat supply to the. British market hiis. been anticipated for many.-years' . past-; but tlie actual cessation of exports ' lias come more suddenly and dramatic- ; ally, than most people looked for. Wlicre- ■ as in 1907 the United States : was:' the largest supplier of meat to the United .Kingdom—in the form 6f beet,and live cattle—the ■ weight of the import from 'that 'source being then, equivalent to .231,590 tons, last year only about 800 quarters of beef and 10,09S head of cattle arrived, representing in all only 3316 tons. At the end of*. 19.13, the United States becamo a free importer of Australian ..and South • American : meat, receiving shipments into both Western and Eastern ports, and. not (ess than 6621 tons have been actually re-export--fed from' England in order to meet the requirements of the Now York and. Boston markets. -Several direct, shipments have'been made from the Argentine Republic,, and .'arrangements, aro in progress ,for. placing :an increased number of steamers on-that ; route. Besides nu-merous-small shipments/made from' Australia to "San' Francisco," two 'directsteamers havo already been, .fixed''to; carry frozen meat from Australia' to New York, and other similar shipments will doubtless follow. . " "
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 25 February 1914, Page 10
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205AMERICAN MEAT MARKET. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 25 February 1914, Page 10
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