Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-06-07

N of the most important eNeii1s 'liat
has happened to the American farmer and
stock grower. is the successful 1ntrodt'etloh
of American dead beef into the English
market. Heretofore it has been booked upon
as experimental. and not likely to result III
a matter of much importance to either coun-
try. The experiments, however, having
met with satisfactory results, has rapidly
increased into a business, and Is assuming
such proDortions as to awaken an intense
interest throughout England. Fully a thou-
sand tons of American beef and mutton are
landed every week in the several seaooard
towns of the British Isles-not tainted or
roughly dressed carcasses, but meat assWeet
and fresh. and i'm as fine shape, as can De
found in the best markets OF our w c1'les'
The importations of fresh beet into Eng
land during the month of March last was
60 2G cwt., nearly six times the mount i'm
ported during March, 1876. Fol the three
months ending with March, the quantity
was l31 ,249 cwt., which is 10y ,l6o cWt. III
excess of what it was tor q corresponding
neriod one wear ago. All the main lines
cunning from New York and Philadelphia
to Glasgow and Liverpool are engaged IN
the trade. and scarcely a steamer leaves the
Hudson that does not carry a large tonnage
of dead meat. 1t is now estimated that 2,OOo
head of mutton, and 10000 quarters, or .
100000 lbs, of beef leave New York and
Philadelphia, alone, every week tor this
newly discovered market, yet all agree that
the trade is as yet but i'll its infancy.
This wholesale consumption must ere long
awaken new life in our stock growing Cir
Giles. The increased demand will stimulate
production and strengthen prices. the
American farmer may at least safely calcu-
late that there will be no decline in the beet
market for several years to come. This, III
deed, seems like the dawning of a new era
to the great West, over Whose broad, eX-
tended prairies and vast plains, and along
whose mountain slopes stock roam i'll herds,
and fatten and multiply without care. The
Door industrial classes of our Eastern cities,
who have to buy meat, will not regard 1t III
the same light. as all they will reallze WIZ
be in the general prosperity OF the nation
Beyond the ocean it will be the reverse. 1t
places meat within the reach of thousands
who, under d former state Of affairs, were
unable to procure it. But the English and
Scotch farmer, whose chief source OF proflt
has been the production OF beef and mutton
in the language Of the unfortunate MOOR
may well exclaim, "Othello's occupation
gomez His only show to continue his
chosen occupation will be. to migrate *
America and seek a home in the far West
where he will find the facilities for carrying
on his business unexcelled.. The Englisf
stock grower. not being slow to deduce
conclusion from snch u chain of facts, is al
ready beginning to look. out fer, q new aNo
cation or i new home, and many, we ma,
reasonably conclude, will seek the latter il
the Western States and Territories.
But some may ask-hoW is this TO affect
region SO isolated as ours?, In the first plac
it demonstrates that it dead beef can b
transported 5000 miles BY wateri it can easil.
be run by rail from here to Chicago or Ney
York. Tt is cheap production that recon
lnends itself to favor. Transportation is, G
course, an item, but it does not in any wis
compare with the extra cost OF feeding ne
eessary to production in the States. In til
face of these, facts. we may very %naturall
conclude that, as the English stock grove
j. forced to abandon his calling or seek til
shores of a. new world. the stock grower {
the States will find that the superior facll
ties Of the]Territories more than. counterba
;.}ee the extra cost of transportation, an
Will push further west to prosecute his bus
lcss. The region of the Rocky Mountain