The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1913-02-07

have overtaken that countrys surpldA
meat production, and 1t may safely be
said that the United States of Amer
lea. In particular TO, domestic needs
Is within measurable distance Of be-
coming competitor with ourselves
for the output of South America"
IT was not further back than 1880
chat the first consignment OF frozen
meat was mported-about thirty tons
In all. The London corporation did
not grasp the Importance of the new
development, with the result that they
let private companies step In with
cold storage accommodation and today
a rich reward Is being reaped by these
| concerns, for there are now over two
hundred specially-ftted steamships en-
gagged In the trade. capable Of carrying
100000 carcases To accommodate
this huge bulk of frozen meat there
are thirty large cold stores within the
city area, able to accommodate over
three million carcases; but the strike
In the early summer demonstrated the
need OF more, and it is being urged
them
Famous Covent Garden.
Besides the central meat markets
the corporation has public slaughter
houses and chill rooms at Islington,
built at cost of 100000, designed to
secure the most Clearly and hygienic
methods. In these 1850 cattle. 101,.
646 sheep, 11.722 calves end 34,981
pigs were slaughtered last year.
So much for London's enormous
meat bill. AS to fruit and vegetables,
the markets are more widespread Co
vent Garden is Of course the most
famous and most important. and as
an early morning spectacle draws
every visitor to London, who can rise
early enough. But 1t Is by no means
the only market. There are others at
Spitalfields and Stratford In the East
end, the Borough. south of the
Thames, and at Kew, on the west
But these are mainly for the rougher |
upplies-potatoes cabbages and the |
like that are brought in by wagon |
from farms in Essex. Kent and Middle |
sex
Covent Garden was once attached to
Westminster abbey and was then
known as Convent Garden, but on the
OF the inconsistencies this
garden, together with a neighboring
held known as Seven Acres, now
called Longacre, was given by Edward
vi. to Edward, duke of Somerset;
md, when that dignitary was con
iemned in 1862, they were transferred
by the monarch to John, earl of Bed
ord, who built house at the bottom
If what is now Southampton street,
eading from Covent Garden to the
Strand. Ever since that time the
Bedford family have held the place,
md today the present duke of Bedford
travis huge income from this and
he adjacent neighborhood, amounting
ome say-though no definite figures
ire available-to close on ten million
dollars year. In the market itself
lie not only draws rents from stand.
folders, but exacts a toll on every.
hing sold there; and as he owns all
he property round about he can en-.
orce his rule of having no competing
interest within half a mile OF the
market
Every wagon sent to Covent Garden
With produce is charged not less than
5 cents, while the stands on which
he growers display their samples are
harged % cents a day The regular
enants of stands on the market pay
lot only rs cents per square foot of
pace, but varying charge on the 8
reduce, of which a few samples win
uffice: Carrots, 36 cents per score q
oxen punches: potatoes. four cents a
ack. and garden fruits, % cents a ;
ushel Thus does the duke of Bed.
ord take toll on every dinner plate in =
.ondon. +
Canada is regarded as the mos,
source of wheat supply. :
nd last year the Dominion sent ;
broad more wheat than any other
ountry in the world, England took q
per cent h