LONDON & WEST OF ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 8

LONDON & WEST OF ENGLAND

REPLY TO MR. LYSNAR. (By...Telegraph—Pres3, Association.) .."'Dunedin, March 11. In conversation with.' a reporter totight Mr. J. H. Estill, commercial superintendent,of the Port of London Authority, referring-to the message from Gisborno on the subject of tho handling' of New Zealand, meat at tho Victoria Docks, said'.that,'in all his speeches ho had stated that all. Now, Zealand meat -was lifted by-electric elevators from the ships' holds,, and was taken by endless , belts' to tho-sorting table under cover. From tho sorting tablo the meat .was expeditiously taken to -insulated .vans, wagons, or barges practically alongside. Ho had. certainly never wished to - convey tho impression that tho endless; belts worked tho meat, into the vans",'etc.; themselves." .Tho'point was that 'thejexisteuco' of'the.'elevators and'endless conveyers for discharging New Zealand .meat at tho Royal Victoria Docks had been denied. ; Ho (Mr. Estill).-emphatically stated that-' -tieso appliances wero .used for New.-Zealand meat. Tho High .Commissioner, said thcro had been no s alteration in tho method of handling meat,since-. -Mr. Lysjiar's Jast.visit 'to' England. ..'.There -was: no excuse therefore for Mr. Lysnar's apparent ignorance of these' facilities. Mr. Lysnar had not, to-his knowledge, previously mentioned sorting . tables.

DAIRYING IN^GERMANY.

During the last decade dairying in Germany, thanks to the constant extension and improvement .of cattle keeping, has deyelopedi'tb such ah extent that tho yearly production of milk ia now worth about .£150,000,000' in round numbers, and is .consequently, superior in value to the breadstuffsywliichin 1909 amounted |o £141,000,000. Notwithstanding the extraordinary increase of .milk produce tion, it has not ..been,: able, quite to keep, pace with tho rapid 'increase :of popula- ■ tion,- which'is, iii round numbers, 900,000 pornhhuni.: For whilst iii'lß7l'the German Empire.'had aii; excess of'dairy products, ...and;; exported, ,'about,,. £1,912,000 worth, since/ 189G it has bebii obliged every year, to import increasing quantities from abroad iu order to meet demands. In 1912 tho excess,;,"of: importation amounted'already to •£9,617,650 - or-6.5 per ceift. of tho homo production. The number of' cows at present existing in Gernianyns,",in-:iouna numbers, :11;000,000.:' If the average milk yield per cow ;bo taken at 506 gallons perVannum,'tlio .total, amount of milk produced; 'every: year, is about 5,566,000,000 (gallons'.; In the ;large, towns the daily /consumption of milk fper inhabitani;fariges from 0.39 to 0.72 pints.,pM dayi-V .lii tho'smaller.towns theconsuniptioii! is greater/and' in rtlie country it is;still mqro so',-On an averago o.7,9.'pint'p'er:day/-'ppr head 'may be taken, br-,36;B''gallons,pei'Janrihm. With la population:'of 67,000,000, in round numiberLi this amounts to a, consumption of 2,-117,000,000 gallons, wliich is 43 per cent:' of tho wholo quantity of milk ,pro,'duced. If it be further assumed on the [strehgtSi of careful calculation that tho Arearihgj and fattening of calves absorbs Vt4u,000,000 gallons, or 8 per cent, of jtho milk produced, it is evident' that at present only'about 49 per corit. remains' tfor'.tho preparation of., '■butter ■ and Bhees'o. .....