The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-31
COLD MUTTON.
How Tons oft Are Brought to Eng
land From the Antipodes.

How Tons oft Are Brought to Eng
land Fro h Antipodes.
Pail Mall Gazette, London.
If any desires a novel sensation,
let him leave the haunts of the West
End line and penetrate the regions
OF the east to where Lady Joce-
Ign, a ship of over 1000 tons burden, is
now dischargin9 her cargo of frozen
mutton in the Victoria dock. The
Great Eastern railway takes you there
from Fenchurch street in less than half
IN hour. and in return for your trouble,
II the 5000 carcasses of sheep which
lately arrived In her direct from yelling.
ton, New Zealand, are not already land
ed,and sent off to Smithfield, you will be-
hold the solution of one of the problems
ofthe age-the.question, namely the sup
ply of the London markets with fresh
meats from the antipodes. 1t is only two
years sinceithislnew trade began. 1t costs
5000 to fit a ship like the Lady Joce-
Ign with refrigerating apparatus, with the
result that oom are provided for some
! 200 or 800 tons Of cargo at a temperature
! which, during a three months voyage,
quite regardless of the heat of the trop-
les through which the vessel sails after
rounding Cape Horn, is never allowed
to rise above freezing point, and is for
the most part below it. The dock-labor
ers, as they work at the task of unload
ing, pause now and again to blow on
their hands, for they are working in the
climate ofan English Christmas or a New
Zealand July. The carcasses each wrap.
ped in a neat white shroud of sacking,
and that again coated over with thick
hoar frost, are hard as stones. Though
the main cargo is mutton, beef is also
represented, and some turkeys and fish
have also been thrown in, so that Lon
doners may know what fschnappers''
taste like and investigate the merits of
liking fsh." But the main interest OF
the cargo lies, Of course, in the 6 900 odd
sheep which four months ago were bleat-
ing in New Zealand, and are now, we
are told, selling forseven pence a pound
as fresh mutton to the butchers in Smith.
field. The carcasses weigh sixty five to
eighty pounds. The sheep are a cross
between the small merino ram and the
larger Leicester eve. The mutton is
said to be excellent, and some of it has
no doubt appeared On West End tables.
| The trade evidently admits of great de-
velopment.
~ "a " ouA chip. l4oW
is the cold produced? 1t is produced
by a steam engine of l15. horsepower,
which, setting in motion a "dry-air pro-
cess" machine, fills with intense cold an
interval which l left between the sides
| of the iced roomsa and the sides of the
ship, and also fills various channels or
hues which cross and recross these ma
rine larders. To maintain the required
temperature the engine hes to be kept
going thirteen hours out of the twenty.
four, and each day about two
and a half tons OF coal. The burning
question among the shippers is whether
the new trade, which will plainly be d
large one, will be best worked by steam
or by sail. Probably experience only
will decide. There is much to be said
on both sides. A steamer would per.
form the journey in little more thar
half the time employed by a sailing ship:
on the other hand, the Lady Jocelyn's
cargo has arrived in much better con
dition than that ola steamer, the British
King, which preceded her by a few
weeks.