THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 12, 26 July 1882, Page 3

THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE.

, r i (K«ikourtf Star.)" '" - fa '•'he pronounced success attending the shipment of frozen meat to the Knjrli'-h market should awaken interest, amongst farmers. Instead of, as hitherto, devoting their attenti- n almost entirely to growing cereals and root crops they can without negleili&r ucli prorlu£ts< of ?liei>soir : ;<itji%i H *ot.bir means of increasing the profits of th'ir holdings, ('oloninl meat has obtained favour in the eyes of British consum--er*rr And as there is abundant evidence that mutton can be placed on the English market at a remunerative rate and sold at a lower price thaqitr has jreviuusly been obtainable at. Cne" demand will, in all probability, exceed the supply. fchee| -raising now resolv s itself into a question of wool v. mutton. Hitherto the former has proved ratther more profitable to farmers possesTsinif only small holdings. Hence wool-producing sheep have found the greater acgeption. ; it is doulkiul^betficjr sti<3s will pffcve,%i# heriiltftiofe, the Detter paying class of sheep for the small farmer new that; it is essentially necessity; p'rbdiicfe bo&f meat and staple. This is a problem wnicb^bMedejFSf &lone.can solve, p ■ A£J otherchfttfgirc'^g'ge'sts ftselV'wbuld it not be more profitable for farmers to purchase lambs and fasten them foF the market ? It appears to be more the prqvinc« of the small farmer to feed than to breed sheep, which, latter is the aim of the large holder. We draw attenioji ta i the matter with the idea of provoking discussion amontr farmers, to whom the question is o vital importance. ' '