THE LAMB SEASON
AN EMPIRE CAMPAIGN
(From "The Post's" Representative)
LONDON, May 20.
Wholesalers at Smithfield do not anticipate such a good demand for lamb during the present season as was experienced last year. When the spring weather is wet and cold, stewing meats are in favour, and it usually happens that the public clings to the beef-eat-ins habit even when the weather conditions in May and June revert to the normal. It has thus been noted, over a number of years, -,that the meat trade passes through what are termed "beef years" or "lamb years" as the case may be. The conditions experienced by the trade during May invariably provide a reliable guide to a forecast for the next two months or so ahead, and some credence, therefore is attached to the present prevailing belief that lamb will not be so popular this year. As far as can be fathered, at Smithfield, New Zealand's lamb shipments will total around 9,000.000 carcasses, and Australia is expected to contribute a, total of 5,000.000 carcasses to the general supplies. Homekilled lambs, due to ths inclement weather, are backward and in poor shape, but owing to the demand for beef, the scarcity of Scotch and English lambs will not give imported prices the upward trend that many had expected.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 12
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216THE LAMB SEASON Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 12
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