BRITAIN’S BEEF SUPPLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 738, 10 August 1929, Page 33

BRITAIN’S BEEF SUPPLY

PRODUCE FROM ARGENTINE SIR E. VESTEY INTERVIEWED “The Argentine, with its wonderful grazing lands and open climate, that enables cattle to be carried out of doors the whole year round, will always be able to produce the best quality of beef far more cheaply than the English, Continental, and American farmers can possibly do, with their huge expenses for winter feeding,” said Sir Edmund Vestey, when interviewed by the London correspondent of “La Nacion,” of Buenos Ayres, in regard to the articles by Sir William Haldane, published in “The Times.” “In my opinion, it is very wrong of Sir William Haldane to broadcast ideas that might induce the English farmer to venture into raising increased numbers of cattle on the idea that America will take Argentine beef in such quantities that famine prices for beef artgoing to prevail in England. “Nowhere In the world is there a body of men engaged in cattle production more alive to the probable future of prices than the Argentine estancieros. Sir William Haldane would be the first to admit that the frigorifico companies, with their wonderful installations for placing the meat and by-products on the world’s markets in the best possible condition, and their world-wide selling organisation, with the experience of a lifetime behind them, are far more capable of advising Argentine estancieros upon the world outlook for beef than ever any private individual could be. The Argentine estanoiero has always available the friendly advice of the frigorificos every hour of the day the whole year round.

“Argentine has the capacity to produce an unlimited quantity of cattle of a quality that pleases the British public, at a cost lower thau in any other country In. the world." The English farmer can therefore be sure that these joint interests of estanciero and frigorifico will see that cattle are produced at prices fair both to the estanciero and the British consumer, and in any numbers that the markets of the world will take.

“In my opinion, the world outlook for cattle prices during the coming years is for prices that will be remunerative to the cattle-growing interests of Argentina. Owing, however, to the cost of stall-feeding through the long winter mouths in Great Britain, those prices will not enable the British farmer to compete any more in the future thau iu the past in the British market, except for the usual small proportion of Britain's requirements that call for the best home-killed, without regard to price.” A NOVEL CULTIVATOR A novel machine, the purpose of which is to drill through the top soil to the subsoil, raise the subsoil, and deposit it at the surface, has been invented by a German engineer. According to a report received by the Department of Market, Canberra, the machine is motor driven and looks like a heavy tractor. Its most important adjunct is a boring tube, which is driven in a forward diagonal direction to the required depth. This tube is revolve#, and the shovel-like blades attached to it collect the subsoil through slits in the tube’s surface. Tiie subsoid is then raised to the upper end of the tube by means of a screwgear. and deposited behind the screen iu a ridge high.