RESULTS OF THE MEAT PRESERVING PROCESS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1014, 16 January 1869, Page 3

RESULTS OF THE MEAT PRESERVING PROCESS.

(From the "Sydney Mail," Deo. 12.) Some time since we called attention to Mr. James Manning's method of " pre- , serving meat" in a raw fresh state, and expressed our conviction that the process would prove a success. That opinion was founded upon the theoretical understanding of the process itself, and a slight acquaintance with a few tins of the meat which had been in keeping some months. We are now in a position to say something more about Mr. Manning's application. It seems that he has put 2500 tins of meat, principally beef, which hare met with a good market, and the cordial approval of consumers in Hobarfc Town, the Fijis, and New Calidonia. In the Fijis the tinned meat finds a ready sale at lOd. per pound, and in liobart Town at 6d. This is the price at each of these places. A large order has been executed for China, Gd. per Ib. being paid here. This is, perhaps, the most remunerative process of meat preserving that has yet been started in this colony. Mr. Manning has kindly placed at our disposal the following statement of accounts. It is not suppositious, but factual. Having reduced several head 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 oil average result* obtained trora 13 head:— Tocostof bullock £i< 12 0 By 5001 h*. of tinPees to slaugh- ned beef, at 6d housa inspec- in Sydney, tor 0 0 3 without bone£l2 10 0 65 tins of 10 lb. Hide, actual each gross at price on pv«--B|d 117 9 misos 0 15 0 Labour in out- . Tallow, say on tins up, pack- only 4ol bs from ing, &c. ... 0 7 G loose fat, and Chemicals ... 0 8 0 boiled bones... 010 0 Packing cases ... 010 0 Tongue 010 Carriage, frefcht Bone and offal sundries, from for pigs and Panbula to manure, not Sycln-y ... 1 0 0 credited, but Balance to profit 419 0 which would bo of value on large scale ... o 0 0 £13 16 0 £13 16 0

It is not necessary that wo should comment upon tho remunerative character of such a 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 salo at ss. a head after shearing. But the question is, how can this process be made available. Is Mr. Manning prepared to buy all tho sheep that may be sent to him at ss. for tinning, or all. the 500-lb. bullocks at £4, 125. 6d! ? We should suppose not. But the process is patented, and it may be applied under royalty. The best mode of operating that occurs to us is this — that the squatters of a district should invite Mr. Manuing to send some one to them for the purpose of erecting the machinery and superintending the process. Ho would then be assured that the process carried out under his patent was properly done, and would of course be able to keep a check on the amount tinned. Happily tho apparatus required is so small, and the building required is so slight, that the preliminary expenses would be nominal.

Showing Expensos and Profit per head of Sheep byactual results. To cost of sheep By 40 lbs tinned after shearing, mutton, withatoOlbs ... £0 5 0 bone, at 6d ...£1 0 0 Tins 0 2 1 Tho pelt 0 0 G Labour 0 16 10 lbs of tallow Chemicals ... 0 0 0 at 3d 02 6 Packing cas-« ... 0 0 0 From loose f<it Carriago, freight and boiling sundries ... O 1 3 bones ... ...000 Balance to profit 0 1111 £13 0 £18 0