The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26

er.-The Wonderful Growth OF the |
ARGENTINE Meat Trade and the Out
took for the Future-Ameficans
Now Doing Half OF the Business.
Copyrighted. 1914. by Frank e. Car
peuter.) |
LA PLATA, Argentine.
Do YOU want q tenderloin steak |
from south of the equator? You can
tuy one any day in our great city
markets, Steamship loads of beef
from Buenas Aires are now starting
out weekly, and New York is com
netting with Europe and its armies
fnr the meat supply Of the Argentine.
Tn-re are already five Frigorificos en-
aged in killing and freezing cattle
md sheep at the mouth of the Rio de
4. Plata, Another is being built at
,he town OF La Plata, and others are
IN contemplation Already three large
American companies are engaged in
the business. and more than half OF
such exports are now sent out by
American capital. The Armours have
a factory at EuenoS Aires, which
is killing half million beeves every
wear and which is now Strengthening
more than twelve hundred q day. The
Svifts have an establishment at La
Plata that covers twenty-five acres. 1t
has exported twelve hundred thou
sand quarters OF beef and million
frozen sheep in a year, and 1T is now
killing fifteen hundred cattle and five
thousand sheep every day
The output of ArmuorS establish
mtut known as La Blanca, is now
about three hundred million pounds
Of beef per arnum, and added to
that of La Plata almost two-thirds OF
billion pounds of beef are now
being shipped away by these two
American companies. In addition are
the frozen sheep. which will in
crease the total by hundreds Of mil
lions Of pounds, and there are other
sheep-freezing factories all the way
south to the Strait of Magellan. The
ArmouS are building a chilled beef es-
adjustment at La Plata which viii
equal the one owned by the SwiftS al
that point, and when it is in full
running order the American-OwneG
Institutions here will be turning ou
more than one thousand million
pounds of meat every year. or enough
to give one good meal Of beef tt
every man, woman and child upol
earth and leave some to spare.
borrower there are other cold stor
age companies, owned by the Englisl
and Argentines, which are shipping
meat to the United States and to Flu
rope, and they are planning to d
ell they can to supply our demands
During my stay in Buenos Aires.
have seen a single steamer starting GU
Tor New York with $4,000 quarters G
beef in their cold storage chamber.
That meat will be twenty-five day
on the way, and when it arrives i
New York it will look as fresh an
taste as sweet as any that comes frol
Chicago. 1t will cost a bit less. an
the purchasers will not know the di
ference. 1t will surprise many of 20
to know that the meat you eat
several weeks old. Our Chicago be-
Is often held in cold storage for
fortnight, and 1T may be two weel
IN the cold storage cars on its wa
to New York. After it reaches thel
it goes into the hands of the who'll
soler who may hold 1t for wee
longer and then into the icebox
the retailer. who may keep it f
several days more before it is sol
Providing the refrigerating is perfet
this does not hurt the meat, and mai
mink ii is the better for keepin
Some Of our best hotels prefer be
when 1t is at least forty days old, al
they have storage rooms where 1t
Kept at a low temperature for we
or SO after 1t is received Many
our large restaurants keep their be
TON and rib roasts from thirty-fi
70 forty days before they are serve
But | want to show you some
these big meat-freezing factories
VIE lower half of our hemisphere. Il
irSt one we shall visit will be
tngoriico LIE Blanca, situated on t
liachuelo river, which runs throu
euenos Aires. This factory is non
naliy an Argentine institution. and
Is managed Independently Of any
the great packing establishments
the United States. Still it's overse.
are Americans. and every one kno
mat II belongs to the ArmOurs. I
arrangements and methods of wol
thss are practically the same
those of our Chicago esta blishmer
The Frigerifico La Blanca has
compressors with capacity of "a
Voo tons OF refrigeration, and it's bui
thsS cover acres The establishm
mas Il capital of a million and q h