GERMAN MEAT SUPPLIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 564, 3 May 1913, Page 3

GERMAN MEAT SUPPLIES.

The position of Germany with regard to her meat supplies is one of absorbing interest to British producers and consumers, who will naturally view the matter from opposite standpoints, says "Spreo" in the Live Stock Journal Almanac for 1913. The writer in question says that the increasing population of Germany has long been absorbing its home-grown beef more rapidly than it can be produced, and that articla has become so Bcarce that prices have so advanced as to place it beyond the reach of the poorer classes, and as the Germans have a curious antipathy to mutton they are being driven to rely very largely on pork. But the example of other countries has begun to tell, and the outcry for more beef haß become so strong that municipal authorities are taking steps to facilitate the placing of frozen beef on the market, notwithstanding an import duty of over 2d per lb. "Appetite comes with eating," and in all probability the agrarian monuply will have to give way to the popular ,d@niand f° r a reduction of this heavy impost on the nation'B wants. It may be the work of some little time, but in the nature of things the must give way and the movement spread over all Central and Western Europe. What this will mean it requires little foresight to foretell. It means a revolution in the British meat trade, which has hitherto provided the only reliable market for the surplus produce of young countries overseas.