Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-27
FROZEN FOOD INDUSTRY.
Remarkable Increase in the Business sa
 the Last Decade.

Remarkable Increase in the Busint ss Ssa
 the Last Decade.
 From the Indianapolis News: Frozen omy that we in this country do not re- hiize, although we are all familiar enough with cold storage houses and refrigerator cars. In 1880 London re- eeived it's first consignment of 400 frozen carcasses of Australian sheep. In spite of the prejudice against it, the traffic has grown until now there are eighty-eight vessels engaged in the trafic,Zwith a carrying capacity of 6,700,000 carcasses per annum. A single vessel sometimes lands at London TO- coo careasses of frozen mutton. At one wharf 10000 to 12,000 of such earcasses are handled daily and one warehouse will hold 250,000 of them; all are from Australia and New Zea- land. Sheep were imported into Aus tralia with the conviets to Botany bay little more than century ago, and with the small population and the vast plains for grazing, focks increased so that in 1867 farmer is recorded who for four months of the year boiled down daily from 1000 to 1.500 sheep for their talIow and until 1880 1t was common in Australia and New Zea-a land to kill f1oeks of sheep for their hides and tallow, leavingithe carcasses to manure the ground, as used to be done with cattle in South America. There is difference between frozen and chilled meat. The meat that Eng land receives from America is chilled, but that sent from Australia, 13,000 miles away, must be frozen. Australia and New Zealand have twenty-two freezing works in operation, whose total capacity is 100000 carcasses per annum. F One of the results of the frozen and chilled meat trade is that people are now able to eat fresh meat who half century ago could only get it as a lrvsiry. Naturally we are less dependent 0 such food than England, but the growing use of refrigerator cars and cold storage houses is giving us variety of diet that was impossible . few years ago. A5
 Co-operariv Creameries In Ireiand
 h spite of the decided feeling against cooperative creameries in some quarters, they are on the increase in Ireland. During the year 1898 returns were received by the registrar general from 3S7 factoriess or 63 more than in {. h ,,,fo creased by 631 Of the factories, 10s were owned by individual proprietors. 113 were the property of joint stock companies, and l65 belonged to the CO., operative farmers. Nearly three fourths of the total number of facto- ries in the country are in the province of Munster. The quantity of creamery butter produced in Ireland In 1898 was 18,040 tons. as against 14.7oo tons in the previous year.
 from Europe to Americs1.
 The success of wireless telegs aphy between France and England has awakened much speculation as 10 the practicability of using the same sys1s tenn between Europe and America. MT. Marconi is modestly non-committal on the subject, but believes that it may ultimately be practicable. { Towers from 1000 to 1,500 feet high, with cer- tain lengths of wire netting to catch the current and make the circuit. would be required, and even then he does not assert that success would be achieved. The next test of the sys- tenn will be between New Haven Eng land, and Dieppe, France, distance of A miles. ae
 Waste of Good Material
 .See the destructive value of iittleli things; the last straw Bfoke the camB els back. .'.ae"Yes; why didn't someaia body keep it to tickle .hes elepha,nss with ?"-Detroit Free Press l. ?