The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-04
Agriculture department.
W. 5. SHIELDS. EDITOR.
Sending American Beef to Eng
ish Market

fish Market
Within the present year, much atteh-
ton has beer given to the question OF
making American Supplies of beef avail
able for the English markets, and the
scheme has been so fully developed that
for the future, large shipments will be
made It may, perhaps, seem eXtraVa-
CANT to pertliet that in the near future
our farmers win be watching the quota
lions of fresh meat in London and Liver
pooI. to determine the price Ofthe steers
grazing in their pastures, as they now
recognize the quotations Of gram I'D
these same markets, as regulating the
prfce of the wheat or corn growing IN
their fields. it may seem extravaganza
TO make such a prediction as this out
stranger things than this have happened
and the problem Of shipping fresh meat
across the Ocean having been satistac-
torily solved, it is difficult to understand
why the movement should be restricted
within narrow limits. The supplies OF
meat in England are very deficient, and
for long time past il has been'a serious
question. discussed with great easerness
NV all classes, as to how meat IN sum
cient quantities could be provided, not
only for the present population, but LOT
the steadily increasing populauoh' OF
the .sHttle island" All convenient sec
+fons have long since been placed under
tribute 10 increase present supplies, ana
every possible encouragement gwen 10
England farmers to increase the produc-
tion IF live stock. But notwithstanding
all these efforts and precautions the ue-
nand constantly outruns the supply, ana
a necessity exists for opening wider
and more inexhaustible field. The Old
country. under these circumstances,
turns her eyes toward the new anu
fines mere the material for the supply
of her necessities, no matter no"
great or memorable they may be. Con
sidering the whole field, the dense popu-
latiop Of the whole country, its steady
increase, the immense qualities OF meat
team consume and the probable increase
in consnmption resulting from a cheap
ening in price which can be well aHoru-
ed-by shippers-it must be confessed,
that already the extent of our shipments
need be limited only by the existing
facilities for shipment, which can, ana
likely will be, rapidly augmented-"hlle
for the future, with every steamer pro-
vided with compartments for carrying
fresh meat, and the increasing popuia-
ton Of the old country, demanding II IN
still greater quantities, the business VIII
assume still CRATER proportions-perhaps
larger than any one dreams OF to-day
This is an important matter to Amer
can farmers The production OF live
stock prices being moderately good, has
been demonstrated to the profitable IN
dustry to which their farms can be de-
voted There was no prospect, even
before the opening of this new outlet,
for the live stock business being over
done. But the certainty of a large and
Dermanent demand upon our beef sup
plies for shipments to foreign markets.
promises that our live stock interests
NAV be safely expended to an indefinite
extent. that in the future they will like
ly prove more lucrative than the past.
1t is very plain to our mind, also that
one of the most decidee RESULTS OF this
European demand for American beef,
will be a greater disparity in our own
markets in the prices of first class and
inferior beeyes. Firstclass cattle already
command much larger price than com
mon or inferior cattle, but in the future
there will undoubtedly be still greater
difference. Shippers find that in ship
ping to New York, Boston, Rhlladel-
phia, Baltimore, and other eastern mar
kets, it pays better to select first class
animals 1t costs as much per pound to
ship bones and horns and sough leathery
carcasses, as it does to ship the ripe,
Juicy grade, with the small proportion
of bone and ofTal, and so shippers inva-
riably discriminate against inferior
cattle, and in favor Of the best The
shippers to the English market has q
still longer route, and we will discrIml-
nate still more strictly against inferior
cattle. and in favor of first-class animals,
even if he can be induced to take the In
ferior animals at all. 1t does not stand
to reason that shippers are going to fit
up steamships to carry beef across the
Atlantic to feed paupers and couvicts.
They are catering to entirely different
class, and will seek for the best our mar
ket affords In this way it is likely the
cause of live stock development will re-
ceive new and wonderful impetus, and
we wish every farmer could be induced
&c study the indications Of the future,
and prepare for it, and prepare for it, by
placing upon the farm good thorough
bred bull, before the grass of another
spring is ready to start Western Stock
Journal and Farmer.