GENERAL FARMING NEWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2419, 26 March 1915, Page 8

GENERAL FARMING NEWS

The first • conrse" of_ lectures to be given by aiiy 'educational college in London, on ,the„'.'aubject iof the frozen meat traderwaf'.given', during the past month by-th'e "City- of, London College, an important educational .institution' whose students heard four such lectures ■on different phases of the subjeot from (a) Mr. George Goodsiiy on "The General Magnitude of the Refrigerated Produce Trade" ;• (b) Mr. A. E. T. Woods, on "Refrigerated Transport"; (c) "Mr. AY. Hawkins, on "Cold "Storage and Frozen Meafc 'Distributioh" ; and (d) Mr. Gilbert: Anderson,- on' "Some Aspects of tho Frozen-Produce- Trade from the Producer's - Standpoint." The AV. Laue Mitchell's chart of rabbit imports from Australasia into the United Kingdom last year has just been issued; aud it is interesting to note that tho totals from both Australia and New Zealand-are below the 1913 figures, being SSU',J)O7 from Australia (597,096 in ] 913), - aud 69,08-1 from the Dominion (69,373). The. highest monthly total was 172,621 crates from Australia in September; the figures for March, 24,352, wero tho highest from New Zealand. No imports of New Zealand rabbits wero recorded in February, April, and June.

According to Messrs. Weddel mid Co.'s annual review, the world's export output of frozen and chilled meat in 1914 is estimated at 800,413 tons, compared witli 766,910 tons in 1913, and 678,658 tons in 1912. The whole was shipped to Great Britain with the exception of 105,918 tons in 1914, 46,650 in 1913, and 36,597 tons in 1912. Referring to prices realised for frozen meat in Great Britain, Weddel and Co., Limited, in their annual review, give the following figures:—Taking 100 as indicating the average of top quotations recorded for twelve leading descriptions of frozen meat for the past ten years, the index figure for 1914 was 132.94, as compared with 112.07 for 1913, 104.66 for 1912,,93.35 for 1911, and 96.56 for 1910. ,

Out of 200,570 tons of frozen'heef imported in the United Kingdom diiriiiir 1914, only 101,440 tons were produced within the British Empire; and of the 95,638 tons brought from South America, fully half camo from the works operated by three North Ameri-can-owned companies. In the case of chilled heef, out of 241,090 tons imported into the United Kingdom, no Fewer than 160,160 tons, or 66 per cent., 'ame from North } •Torks.