CHILLED MEAT

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 9

CHILLED MEAT

Australia Handicapped

QUALITY OF CATTLE

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

London, September 4. The “Daily Telegraph’s” agricultural editor, commenting on Australian attempts to supply chilled meat, emphasises the deficiency in quality of Australian cattle compared with Argentinian, which have achieved excellence through the importation of the best pedigreed British bulls, which Australia refuses to do through fear of foot-and-mouth disease. The writer considers that at the present rate of progress of building up Australian herds it will be ten or fifteen years before Australia reaches the Argentinian standard. Conversely, the writer mentions that Australia and New Zealand through the importation of British strains have achieved merit in mutton and lamb unknown' in Argentina. ___