IS MUTTON LOSING POSITION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 762, 10 March 1910, Page 10

IS MUTTON LOSING POSITION.

; • ' AN.-ENGLISH >lETY. ' j ■ Mutton is making great strides in popii- j larity as .an, article ot diet in the' United f States,'but is it holding its own in Great t Britain?. This is the question which, Mr. Ja's. Cameron asks.in the current uum-be'r.-o.f-.the. ''Live. Stock Journal." A J good.-many* authorities, he'.says,; are in- ' i dined', to. think that' mutton will riot i improve. its position as ah article ■of J diet in the "United Kingdom during the ' next: decade. . To all appearance, saya Mr.; Cameron,-, beef holds .the lead in the f meantime bv.two to one of.'an' advantage j in weight. In' Scotland, as a .whole, there ; does not appear .t'o'.be much immediate ' hope for sellers of mutton so far as the working classes are" concerned. With such people' beef has by a. long way the t command. South of the' Border the a working-class ' consumption of mutton .is t but. even there the majority \ of retail-tradesmen note more or less .of .a t slowness of demand for mutton from the i ordinary wagb-earriing' r . ranks. At one i time very far mutton was consumed by ,c the mining and ironwork employees of t Central England. As a matter of fact, heavy "porky" '.sheep, which were reck- \ oned-to be a. : half nuisance-at ordinary , industrial centres, : were: shifted to soin.e ', of the, old, mining districts and sold at J fair, profits.':■ All that has changed; .-A ( new generation takes rather gingerly :to , heayy, -ifat ■'■. meat..- =.A; very fat ..mutton j chop,;even:-if cold,', is" not so much ta ~ thdUikih'g! of "thb-grimy juniors of these ] days. That'.ys''the'^testimony.from ever so many quarters. Still, urban workingclass England as'a. whole remains a fairly good, customer .for mutton, although' the like can.jscnrcoly be said, of the north. There is ho great need in a sense for and upper ori-cither'side-of the Border, .' but there is, striking ..need: for some ele- ' mentnry education on the treatment. of home arid foreign -meat. -i. . ' v