, 1880-01-04
AMERICAN MEAT.
What the English Parliamentary Cons
mission Are Learning In the United

what the kLnT11An nFAFA1A"eulAl3 NoAA"
mission Are Learning In the United
States.
Philadelphia Correspondence London Times
The cattle and meat trades naturally attracted
much Of the Commissioners attention, and they
closely examined the fur Western stoca-yards.
where cattle arc loaded OH the cars, and the
Philadelphia stock-yurds and abattors, whence
they are shipped to Europe as live or dead meat,
ms the case may be, and also the methods OF pre-
pairing the dead meat and refrigeratfng and
packing it On the steamers. They were charmed
with the facilities given for this traffic in Phtia-
delphia, describing the arrangements US COM
plete, and the abattoirs and yards as
SaG The most atner @nd sde o h
aas easf,e fro% april to septea6er, ind dead meat
the rest Of t1s new business orlRe
Fuller s. Co., the chief shippers from Philatiel-
phia select the finest cattle in the country, for
ibis tre refriger'te the meat fqr M foTtyegns fo
about &c or u degrees keep It at this tempern- q m
ture on the ocean voyage, and deliver 1t III nm rms
condition in the great m En&sh nea en-
each steamer, the dead meat being sent in guar
ters. They have sold it delivered IN the Englsh,
markets rs lev rs s. Per Rnnd ~ M sorp% naund anl
this, they SHY, will pay all the expenses and
give them a. living profit They Pr. prefer ++{t, to
send meat, because With their r. AVe e. eat.ac s
turns they ought from the hides and other pro
ducts when the meat Is killed there, and they
can do much better with these products IN tho
United States but they complain that their
dead ment Is not handled properly Mftcr It pnsses
out of their control in England. When they sell
it. the meat is the finest that can DO PRODUCED.
and is in the best condition. but 1t does not Ect
to the consumer in England In this way. They
say it is almost universe. there to sell their good
pieces us cut from English or Irish cutie, and to
call inferior meat. wherever Fltfsed. :" Amer1-
cam" This examination demonstrated that tho
finest American meat ean thus be sold dressed
in the London dead-uleat market, ut I'll or TIT per
pound wholesale; und as the supply seems prac-
iically linitless on this side, tho English far7neE
will have to compete With this price Tor some
When m such is the condition Of affairs it will be
seen how readily the Commissioners can ascer-
tain and report facts nnd statistics anu now f1-
fic.llt it viii bc for them to report remedies But
cr1lment has sent out for this purpose men who
will nscertain all that cnn be learned on these
important subjects They have found the
Americans courteous and anxious to aid them IN
every possible way in the matters OF inquiry,
this being the cuse wherever they have gone anu
1f,,uIc the object Of their visit known. They re-
gard Philadelphia rs rather the cheapest poft
for foreign shipments, the elements c0nd'1cin8
to this being u shorter railway line from the
West, mort complete terminal system Tor
tr,lnsier between railway and stenmer, and lower
mort expenses forvesscs. But they are lost III
admiration ut the yastness Of everything IN tnc
Uuitetl StAtes, and the enormous scale on Wn!ch
traffic Is done, and will 80 homo ",tn very 10
yon,blc impression not only Of american kind
ress, but also Of American ability to maintain
competition.