The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-15
CHEAPER MEATS
FOR AMERICANS
BrItisher Declares Panama Canal
Will Bring Smaller Prices

| Washington. June 1j.-Considerable
attention is being given by Edwin r.
Sweet, assistant secretary of the de-
partment of commerce, To the extern
sion of our trade abroad. especially in
| those countries where the exports of
| articles that enter into human con-
| sumption. and, therefore, OF articles
| that measurably affect the high cost
| of living, are among the main features
of commercial expectation.
That's why for instance, he has been
studying up, among other foreign
sources Of exploitation, the far-off and
| extremely little known British colonial
possessions in the South Pacific, Aus
| trala and New Zealand. His attention
| is again being centered on those highly
prosperous countries. and the undouht-
eddy vast advantages to be secured
| through the cultivation Of trade with
them. by the authoritative statements
of an antipodean, Lee Scyignon of
Melbourne, now on a flying tour of the
United States and Canada. Not alone
Assistant Secretary Sweet. but. Tor
that matter every head of a family in
this country will read with keen APP
probation what Sevignon says about
meat prices i'm the antipodcs.
Fine Meats at Low Cost.
IF the Australians and New Zeal
anders can get their excellent beef and
| mutton To the Atlantic seabOard by
| means Of the Panama canal, even at
| twice the retail prices these meats
fetch in the home market, Americans
| will not grumble loHE over the stupen-
| dous cost OF that epoch marking price
| of engineering" says the visitor
"A trip through the markets of sgd
ney and Melbourne, Auckland and
Christ church would amaze the Ameri-
| can householder who pays twenty five
I, cents a pound for mutton chops, thirty
| cents for lamb chops, and more for the
| choicer cuts of beef-and. also. COR
respondingly high prices for every 9TH
| cry other kind of meal
Lamb chops i'm sydney ana Mel
bourne. even when one patronizes the
swagger butchers, never cost more
| than eight or ten cents a pound. The
| choicest cuts of beef are nine and ten
cents. while mutton chops are six and
eight cents The reason for the cheap
ness of Australian and New Zealand
| beef and mutton is that the cost OF
production is small. and the volume
marketed away above the local and
| British consumption.
"The Australian and New Zealand
stock raiser never has To house his
stock and rarely does he have to pro-
vide feed The winters in both the
commonwealth and the dominion are
almost like the winters in the southern
states-only not so cold-and natural
pasturage abounds.
The producers Of meat in those
South Pacific islands believe they can
put their products into the markets Of
the Atlantic seaboard cheaply, now
that the Panama canal is an accom-
plished fact, because the trade routes
are shortened by nearly 1000 miles
one way, or about 5000 miles FOR the
round trip. And they will be able to
supply any demand the American mar
kets may make upon them because to-
day they are not producing anything
like 50 per coent of their capacity.
Moreover, as the demand increases,
they have only to expand into the va
cant lands of the interior and add to
their breeding stock.
There are fewer than 100000 per-
sons i'm Australia and New Zealand al
though the combined areas of the is
lands is almost as great as that of the
United States, without Alaska. The