RANCH IN PACIFIC

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 6

RANCH IN PACIFIC

"HOT-DOG” MYSTERIES. FROM VENERABLE COWS. Informing the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club yesterday afternoon that the second largest ranch of the United State® was on the Island of Hawaii, Mr M. A. Eliott, in the course of an address, stated that the place carried 38,000 head of Hereford cattle. “The beef I saw in the Honolulu meat works were first class, well-finished cattle and equal to anything grown in Now Zealand/’ he said. ‘‘Light weight steers 600 to 650 lbs. are preferred; they are brought across to Honolulu in scows and by steamer, the journey taking about eighteen hours. The cattle are mostly fattened on native grasses and alfalfa, but paspalum is being tried out. English grasses such a.s rye, clover, etc., will not grow in Honolulu. ‘‘When anyone desires to lay down a lawn in a garden, grass seed is not sown as we are accustomed to do, but small stems and roots of a native grass (mananuae) are planted by hand about 6 inches apart all over the proposed lawn; these in time thicken out, and make a more or less grassy looking surface which requires to be kept closely cut. At the best the lawns are not to be compared with those in New Zealand.' ‘‘l investigated the mysteries of ‘hot dog.’ These are sold at baseball matches and on other, festive occasions and in restaurants and hotels disguised as pork sausages. On interviewing the wholesale firm who manufactured this delicacy, and who imported the meat, I ascertained that the meat was honeless cow and bull beef from New Zealand, possibly some of that actually exported by myself. It is a far cry from the venerable dairy cow in the Manawatu, who has passed her usefulness as a milker, to a ‘hot. dog’ in Honolulu or elsewhere in the United States (for large quantities are shipped from New Zealand to New York), but the direct connection was there and it felt quite like a touch or rather a taste of home. As far as healthy food is concerned, boneless meat is equal to the best and no one need have any qualms in this direction.” ■