Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43352, 21 July 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

'ftEW: ZEALAND MEAT A 1 -; • . ;:HOME. - ' r

HOW IT IS HANDLED.

One of theCprimeobjects i which Messrs;£eakes and 1 Crabb; . the Agricultural' Department, 1- *e now in England, is to see how New Zwihiai meat English 1 l>orti(;;* Ta- -’a?* private ltetter,; which .» hasjdst - Welling- • who is interested • in matter describes how he saw New Zealand * meat discharged fromtheThoijpe» Grange at LiverpobLaftCr a- recent * trip. He writes \ “ The meat is taken fi;qm the top layers of-therbjill?,:ah(J put in canvas: slings,> same -J3O -'carcases at a time; hhd’ they'ir&hbisted >‘on to the ■ wharf of the ship, not under .cover*-‘of any. From ; . these sipgs.' • pome. seven or eigftir meßhtilaJC'iaiiißarcase, look at the«i dumber, 4toow;mit -/ton their

■hoiilderSfan'cKta’Me it to one of the nine' Which’ ;;is r taking the particular '|nhft^r r .;. f ;tp i f.the cold stores, or railway ghed> and stack it on the same: -Or .if they get a carcase for which'there is no lorry they; hut; it back in - the 1 shed and wait‘uhtil thsy find a* place for it, or return it to the : ffiip.. This |s a Very primitive waynfTfc lorries in the shed ; .iakkigi Carcases, and two: lorries This’is a With adot of .glass';hf:>fee .rde^ ) ,, AM ' iny the summer: timeyimistr'be hot .tilce a greenhouse, -ahjffall: meat ..passing through thisXshed must get soft,and lose ftir bloom;- These A lorries take ah hour .or more to load, and the carriers, kriQwing this, 'and not ' wishing to lose the men’s* or the horses’ time by waiting, the horses are taken out, whilst - loading, to do other work. We felt some of the carcases on a iCrry; arid found them' beginning ,to get soft, although there was no sun, and the day was

cold' In this shed were heaps of bulk wheat, which at the time was being sacked and takemaway, which' caused, a tity of dust to fly about/ which would help to deteriorate the appearance of the meat wraps, and, perhaps, the meat:”. This arrangement seems to be in strong contrast with the excellent accommodation for loading and unloading meat at, the Ship Canal, Manchester* The Liverpool Dock Trust,?: however, have decided to spend three and a quarter millions on enlarging and improving the docks at Liverpool at once.