Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-03-03
AMERICAN MEAT FOR ENGLAND.


NNllIE HuNJtfas
A correspondent writes to the London
Times; Having recently returned from
a prolonged trip to the far west Of Amer
lea, and having made some inquiries in
Canada and the United States about the
matter, ! am in a position to supply ad-
ditional Information respecting the de
vclopment of this new trade. The prin.
ciple upon which the plan Of meat and
fruit preserva ion is based is simply to
keep these articles at a temperature just
below freezing point. Thesevenhundred
tons of meat brought over last week was
landed in such good order as to have been
Immediately sold. In fact, such is the
quality ofthe meat, and such the condi-
ton in which it is placed upon the mar
ket here that your correspondent was
told at Smithfcid market that Canadian
meat was sold here to metropolitan butch
crs, and sold by them without distinction
Of name, and alas, without distinction OF
price. The plan of bringing meat to
England is not onlN less expensive than
transporting live stock, but it is placed
ON the market in better condition. Even
after voyage from the continent, or
even from Ireland, cattle must be landed
in feyerish condtonaitert the unnatural
experience Of the discomfits of a sea voy-
age. Killed on their pastures, and only
the marketable portion shipped to this
country, the quality Of the meat is i'm
proved and the cost of the transportation
Iessened, Your correspondent, II. G.
T., " points chiefly to Canada as the
main source of a meat supply for this
market, referring only incidentally to the
far west. Allow me, however, to say
that if we depended only on the domin-
ion for a supply OF beef sufficient to re-
duce its price. we should, ] feel conf
dent be disappointed. Our hope, 50 far
as America is concerned, centers chiefly
in the pastures Of the central and western
states, and especially in Kansas and
Texas and the eastern portion Of Colora-
do, The rich grasses of this region, its
mild climate and abundance Of water,
give l. advantages over Canada and other
states exposed to similar severe winters,
in which stock has to be fed six out OF
twelve months.
The Farmer says A story was told us
last week in Smithfcld. A wealthy gen.
teman having west-end establishment,
had read so much Of this American meat
that he wished to try a ieint of it, and
that he might be sure to have what be
wanted, obtained an introduction to a
certain salesman in the metropolitan
market. OF course he was received po
/ litcly, and was promised that he should
have what he wanted. The salesman'~
SON dcferentially asked the gentleman
who was his butcher. "Oh, so.and-so, -
was the answer, eve have no reason to
complain, as he sends us the best Scotch
beef he can buy" The salesman did not
laugh Just then but he did so soon as the
gentleman's back was turned, tor he
knew that "the best Scotch beef - which
the butcher had supplied, bad for fully
eight months past, come all the way from
New York. We see that in the prov.
inccs the consumers are getting fair ad,
vantage out Of the added supplies from
/ America. In London the bu' cLers have
reaped almost all the advantage. They
have bought as cheaply os they could
and sold as if they had bought at the
4 highest ruling rates. Wise in their gen
Grafton, they do not label the meat they
sell.