BEEF IN AUSTRALIA
The "Queensland Grazier" says: In New South Wales beef will probably ba shorter' this- coming winter than for many a year. Fat cattle were probably never fewer in the southern State, and moro than half the State is still dronghtRtricken. If rain in plenty comes r.ven this week it will be too late to give fat cattle for tho winter. Grass for cattle does not grow that quickly, and the win. ter in the cattle country down south is not mild enough for fattening, anyway.So. the shortage there is certain, and bound to bo- ncuto. As giving some idea of the value of cattle down there, we can mention tho sale of a lino of a thousand head on the Victorian border at .£25 per' head. In the paddocks,, mind von. Probably they would go to the Melbourne 'market. And the winter' hasn't commenced yet! Prices avo bound to go higher before they go lower. How high, men in the gumo are only guessing. Of course, there will be mutton, of a sort; but even the supply of this depends on the weather. Also there is the fact that pretty well a hundred thousand carcasses of frozen mutton are stored in New South Wales for the local supply in tho worst months of the winter. 'Phis mutton will be released by Government at a fixed price, to the extent that tho supply of fresh meat falls short. But there are sufficient well-to-do people about Sydney to guarantee a high price for fresh beef, seeing how scarce it will bo, no matter how much frozen mutton is released. They nrcfer it fresh! In Queensland "the shortage of fats has been such as to put the season's killing back for months When the works start there is bound to be a razor-edged demand, on the part of the local meat works as well as the local trade, for all available fats. We hoar that one big pastoralist has been offered ills-, per 10(111). for bullocks delivered at Brisbane. So "it seems pretty safe to bet that comparatively fow fails will loayo Queensland fov the southern ma.rk.etfl. There is Iho extra long distance to send them to the south, there is the extra cost, thoro is tho extra -wastage, thore is the extra risk. Consequently, with tho prices offering, Queensland fat cattle will be fronted in
Queensland. At a pinch frozen beef could be sent to Sydney to rolievo the situation there, but it would cost money!
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 8
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417BEEF IN AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 183, 29 April 1919, Page 8
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