THE PROTOS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 684, 4 February 1881, Page 2

THE PROTOS.

(From the Wairarapa Standard.)

Although there may not be a surplus bf stock in this district, it is as-well to think out what this Frotos experiment teaehes in reference to the frozen meat. This can be done much easier than by computing the increment our Island will receive from the success of the butter sale—in our hasty opinion of far more importance than the meat. Not long since there appeared a letter in one of the- Sydney papers proposing to send meat to England unskinned, and giving an account of an experiment made in this way with the Strathlpveu, giving these figures as the result:—Or. By sale of one sheep (carcase), 761bs, at-7d-£2 4s. 4d. Dr. To cash paid freight, Ws, at 2d—l2s 8d ; incidental expenses in London, 6s 4d; total, 19s. "The shipper thus received for the wether £1 5s 4d clear cash. The Lytleltbn Times, perhaps as good an authority as can be obtained upon this matter, thus regards the , experiment : " Allowing 3d, or one-half for expenses, the result in the case of: 501b wethers is encouraging. If meaps. a net profit of 14s jd per head, exclusive bf fleece. This for merino wethers would be, as a permanency, simply magnificent, What sheep

of mixed breeds will yield, and of English ipure breeds, on thiß basis; can barely left to the instructed imaginations oi tnosß ■ understand and ire familiar with their iesh-bearing capacities. JVe nave ■Mowed 3d as the cost, because that was, right, the result preyioted after the StratblevenWiment. Besides-, we observe that 2d i>:the calculation or.Wnich the charterers of the. OftatEastera base.tbßir^ctaJor*. WwilKf coursed liltely-W do things more-cheaply'than other .people, on ac-' ooimt : of 4he- scale of., their -It stands to reason that.2o,oQa head of cattle anitheirnieat can" be-Bandlett relatively.cheaper.than a smaller number. On the tither liand.Hhef purpose to kill their meat for the 2d calculated for expenses. They do not, moreover, expect better animals than will' Rverfge from 3001b'to 4001b, which may be,a good resuit for Plate cattle, but in the case.of Australasian or American animals it would simply mean' ruin.. These, things may tendto prove that the Argentine calculation of 2d leaves a'considerable margin, for Australians to "count upott. But the calculationMsorilyan estimateVpa which it is hardly"safe to comiV of the' Prbt'os, to the effect HiafcthauUer • arrived a"fter : ..'all : ;quite s^'una ! shoWß'that;tb'e time has'CbraVfordevejopj n< T a Colonial trade' in meal and- perishable goods'.' : This 1b the. time for the pro-motors,ofi'Obra'pany-to;strike, for the Protoa haa the iron." Relative-to'the .butter:which more con- ; eerns thia district than the sheep, all that is wanted is, careful manufacture to produce a sound-article, for within a comparatively short'period meatis of communication ..will exist for its conveyance : in- Refrigerating. Chambers"-to Europe. The P. and O/.Compariy and others have had proposals made to them to' fit up an agreed amount of storage: r|oni for the carriage of dead meat and articles such as butter. Where the cargo' is : to be ob- ' tained the steamer or sailing vessel will be i found. It would not be a bad idea for : butter makers to co-operate in .this matter i throughout the-district,- and .save the , middle man's profits. . ■.