MEAT PRESERVING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2501, 8 January 1869, Page 2

MEAT PRESERVING.

(From the Sydney Mail, Die. \z.) Some time since we called attention >« \, Ja ra eßMan,„yme.hodofp r eS n O m J in a raw fresh stole, and expressed ourS Tiction that the process would prove"a2" cess, rhat opimon w M founded upon Z theoretical understanding of the \«L itself and a slight BR few tins of the meat which had been in keeping some months, We are now 11 posit.on to B ay B „ me thing more about Mr Manmngs's application, It seems tW J has put up 2500 tins of meat, principally beef winch hare met with a good market, and S cordial approval of consumers in Hobart Town the Fiji., and New Caledonia, In £ Fins the tinned meat finds a ready salo • lOd per pound, and in Hobart Town a Yd This is the price at each of these places a large order has been executed for China, ed per lb bang paid here. This is, perhaps £ most remunerative process of meat presfnintr that has yet been started in this colony Mr Manning has kindly placed at our dtapos, the following statement of account It not supposititious, but actual. Havinere duced several he.d of stock-bullocks and sheep-to tinned meat, the following is the money result per head:- °

Showing Expenses and Profit on one Bullock of very middling quality, founded on average results obtained from 13 head. X s, d. £ I d To cost of By 500 lbs of ' ' bullock ... 4 12 6 tinned beef Fe , es t t0 at 6d in slaughter- Sydney, house lnspe- without tor ... 00 3 bone ...12 io « 55 tins of 10 flide, actual lb each gross pr j ce on at «d ... li? 9 premises... 015 n Labour m Tallow, eav catting up, on only 4 ' o packing, &c. 0 7 6 lbs from Chemicals... 0 5 6 loose fat Packingcases 0 18 o and boiled Carriage, DOnes __ 0 w (1 fteight,Bun- Tongue ... 0 1 n dries, from Bone and Paubula to offal for Sydney ... 1 o 0 pigs and Balance to manure, profit ... 419 6 not credited but which would be of value on a large scale 0 0 n £l3 16 0 £l3 16 o

Showing Expenses and Profit per bead of Sheep by actual remits. £ 8 - d - £ I. d. To costs of By 40 lbs sheep after tinned mutshearing at ton, without 60 lbs ... o 5 o bone, at 6110 0 Tins ...0 2 1 The pelt ...0 0 6 Labour ... 0 1 610 lbs from Chemicals ...0 0 6 loose fat Packing case 0 0 9 and boiling Carriage, bones at 3d 0 i 6 freight, sundries ... o I 3 Balance to profit ... 011 11 *l 3 0 £l3 0

It is not necessary that we should comment upon the remunerative character of such* transaction compared with the miserable return realised by most squatters from the ordinary boiling-down process now generally produced, or even for rearing sheep for sale at 5s a head after shearing. But the que»tion is, how can this process be made available. Is Mr Manning prepared to buy all the sheep that may be sent to him at 5s for tinning, or all the 500-lb bullocks at £4l2s 6d ? We should suppose not. But the process is patented, and it may be applied under royalty. Tlie best mode of operating that occurs to us is this-that the squatters of a district should invite Mr Manniug to send some one to them for the purpose of erecting the machinery and superintending the process. He would then be assured that the process carried out under his patent wai properly done, and would of course be able to keep a check on the amount tinned. Happily the apparatus required is io email, and the building required is so slight, that the preliminary expenses would be nominal. He could, therefore, commence anywhere, aud on the shortest notice. Whatever may be the theoretical opinion of th* (.•fleets of the chemicals he employs, here is meat preserved by them which has a good market, and it only remains for others to go in and partake of the profits which he appears to ba realising for himself.