Year: 1877

Some Further Information Inter


esting subject.


A correspondent writes to the Londor


Times: Having recently returned from


n prolonged trip to the far west of Amer


lea, and having made some in Juiries in


Canada and the United States about the


matter, am in a position to supply ad'


ditional information respecting the de


velopment of this new trade. The prin-
ciple upon which the plan of meat and
fruit preserva ion is based is simply to
keep these articles at temperature Just
below freezing point. The seven hundred
tons of meat brought over last week was
landed in such good order as to have been
Immediately sold. In fact. such is the
quality of the meat, and such the cOndi-
tion in which it is placed upon the mar
ket here that your correspondent was
told at Smithfield market that Canadian
meat was sold here to metropolitan butch
ers, and sold by them without distinction
of name, and alasi without distinction OF
price The plan of bringing meat to
England is'not only less expensive than
transporting live stock, but it is placed
on the market in better condition. Even
after a voyage from the continent, or
even from Ireland, cattle must be landed
in a feverish condition after the unnatural
experience of the discomfits of a sea vOy
age. Killed on their pastures, and only
the marketable portion shipped to this
country, the quality of the meat is i'm
proved and the cost of the transportation
lessened. Your correspondent, CT. g.
p" points chiefly to Canada as the
main source of a meat supply for this
market, referring only incidentally to the
far west. Allow me, however, to say
that if we depended only on the domin-
ion for supply of beef sufficient to re-
duce its price, we should, | feel conf
dent, be disappointed. Our hope, so far
as America is concerned, centers chiefly
in the pastures of the CENTRAL and western
states, and especially in Kansas and
Texas and the eastern portion of Colora-
do The rich grasses of this region, its
mild climate and abundance of water,
give IL advantages over Canada and other
states exposed to similar severe winters,
in which stock has to be fed six out of
twelve months.


The Farmer says: A story was told us
last week in Smithfeld A wealthy gen.
tleman, having west-end establishment,
had read so much of this American meat
that he wished to try a joint of it, and
that he might be sure to have what he
obtained an introduction to a
certain salesman in the metropolitan
market. OF course he was received po
litely, and was promised that he should
have what he wanted. The salesman's
son deferentially asked the gentleman
who was his butcher "Oh, so-and-so,"
was the answer, "we have no reason to
as he sends us the best Scotch
beefhe can tuy." The salesman did not
laugh Just then but be did 40 soon as the
back was turned, for he
knew that 1.-The best Scotch beef which
the butcher had supplied, bad for fully
eight months past, come all the way from
New York. We see that in the prov
inces the consumers are getting fair ad
vantage out of the added supplies from
America. In London the bu .chers have
reaped almost all the advantage. They
have bought as cheapiy ss they could,
and sold as if they had bought at the
highest ruling rates. Wise in their gen.
Grafton, they do not label the meat they
ell