The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1905. NOTE AND COMMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7881, 25 July 1905, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1905. NOTE AND COMMENT.

lleef deteriorates in quality when frozen, and therefore sonic CHILL-HI) other mean l -' had to InHBKR. found, wlivrelyy.it coiild \y i landed on the London market in good saleable condition. Experiments in chilling were made, un( it was found that the process actod adiniratily over a certain space oi time occupied by Argentine steamers in reaching London. New ZealaiKi Khippcrs liave found so far that the | time occupied, or something or othci undis overed, lias btvn fatal to the chilled beef, and the shipments! have not lieen a success. It is claimed thnt the m-at will not stand chilling for a grater length of Itime thur 28 days. The Shaw. Suvill. an< Albion S.S. Co. ia carrying oi» the Tokonyiru, which left Auckland or. Thursday for Lolnlon. for the New Zealand Refrigerating Co. at Ihinidin, .j(KI quarters of chilled l>eef, o\ei • which special care is being taken with the idea of astyrta.fnSng whethc the chilling proces will avail lor th> long distance lietwccn New Zr-nlun and London. A party of intvresltv people went on board the Tokomaru before the vessel left and inspected the arrangements made, and if u j fhipmeiit can be made successfully rjiis should succeed. The meal i-

hung in i>airs in a '(wen-deck compart ineiit in which there is a free circulation of air, in a temperature iK'incvn ,'!2 and M decrees, based mi experiments made Ijy the Itefrigeratins I'd. over a long space of time The Company claim that they have kept beef sweet and pood for 70 day.l- - about the temperature mentioned, ;:nd under similar conditions to thos, to be observed on the Tokomaru. XVozen beef, as has been explained deteriorates- cons idem bly and has to lie .sokl at something less than hull the price of chilled jicef. Mr Harough. of the- Waikato, who has only recoil - ly returned' from n visit to England, states tftat whilst in London he snv fro7tn beef sold at 2d per lb, while' chilled beef sold at 'Sd. Mr W. Murray, the manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, when s|ieakr"B to a Southern interviewer, remarked that if the present experiment were successful it would mean an appreciation of ljd to Ijd pilb on ion-quarter* and about 2d per IT> on hindquarters. Considering thai New Zealand exports at the present time something over SO.tKiO.OOOIb«; of beef yearly, it do** 'not take mud calculation to show what an enoi ;uous gain it would mean to settlers if the present ex|>erimcnt is success ful, and proves l.iat chilled beef car. safely lw carried to the markets of the 'old world. Hitherto the Nc» M-aland export trade in ln-ef has been greatlv restricted by tAe ncocssitj and the bail effects of free/in),', am: the success i>r chilling, besides giving firiners a imirJi larger price foi their fat cattle, would very material lv increase, the total trade in this prod'uet. It is to In- hoped, therefore, tbat the Tokmnaru's consignment will reach London in good order, ami that t'w New Zealand Keirigeratin;. Company ami the Shaw-Savill Coi.r panv will gain a substantial rcwarf, for the.'s enterprise.

Mr Reunic, a Canterbury farmer.who left New Zealand rccetilFAKMIMJ It on a trip to Knglaud, JN sends his friends an inCANADA. tcrcsting account ot tannin Canada. At Indianhead, in Assiniboia, Mr Rcnnic reached the centre of a great wheat growing district, where he frmud many things of great interest. His )two days' stay at fmlianhead was evidently very enjoyable, and lie was impressed with what lie saw of the methods and results of fanning. "I saw more wheat," lie says, "in three" hours' drive than one could sec in the whole of tin- Kllersmcrc district. Imliairhcad is not a very large town, its population being about 17,001). The lam! is a very rich sandy loam, very loose, and requires absolutely no working to produce a 25 to 30 bushel crop of wheat. They burn Hie stubble oft in the spriug (n«t in the autumn, because snow would not lie on the ground so loug), and then they simply drill in the wheat and harrow it. Thousands of acres arc sown in this way, and it seems the only way, because everything has to be done so quickly. They sow their wheat in April ami May, and I hey are reaping in July ami August, and have Ihrashc-.l and taken away by the end of September. The crops this year aie up ami looking well, and the farmers anticipate good results. There is some splendid country through from Indianheail to Winnipeg, and the greater part of it is under cultivation. The price of land is from 5 to 15 dollars (£1 to £.'j) per acre, and it is going up in value every year. Some sections that couhl have been bought two years ago for 2J dollars ate now worth 12 dollars." Referring to the stocking of the country, Mr Rennie adds: "We have seen very few sheep, although we have seen thousands of cattle, and tliey are in good condition. The meat liere requires good teet'h, and it can't come up to Canterbury. The only meat one ran get tender is veal. The -lamb,' as they call it, is terrible."