MEAT FLOUR.

Northland Age, Volume 19, Issue 31, 3 November 1921, Page 5

MEAT FLOUR.

We direct special attention to a most important meeting convened for Monday Nov 7by the Kaitaia Chamber of Commerce, when the President will explain the scheme for the manufacture of Meat Flour. CLAIMS FOR THE INDUSTRY. The gieat value of the new industry to freezing companies may, be briefly summarised thus: —The conversion of a porlion of meat now sent Home as frozen meat will reduce the volume on the London market, and thus give the price a chance to harden; the portion converted into meat flour will give an enhanced return to the farmer for his meat; the capital required to erect a meat flour works, to work in conjunction with a freezing works is very little; when tinned meat is a glut on the market meat flour could be made,, and the manufacture of meat flour from some of the stock now turned into tinned goods would materially aid in preventing such a glut occurring; an immense market for meat flour, at present unexploited by the fresh or frozen meat trade, is awaiting in tropical, arid, and semi-tropical countries.

The claims made and now proved for tfiis meat flour are gave briefly as follows:—Very great concentration, only surplus moisture removed; remarkable keeping qualities under trying conditions; great convenience and saving of time and firing in general household cooking; wide range of utility for general food purposes; palatability and digestibility; cheaper by at least one-half than other concentrated meat products; can be made from store or forward stock; can be sold in cartons or packages like tea; can be made from less valuable parts of beasts and yet show practically the same analysis; does not require storing in a refrigerating chamber at works, port of shipment, ship-board, or port of arrival; greatly reduced freight owing to small space taken up (about onetwelfth that of frozen meat); great value for the millions with defective teeth who cannot masticate fresh meat; inestimable importance in time of war; value in Eastern countries, arid regions, and polar regions; utility for shipping companies, aviators, motorists, miners, explorers, sportsmen, etc; comparatively small amount of capital required to be sunk in buildings, plant, machinery, etc.; exceptional value in building up the strength of invalids, dyspeptics, delicate children, etc,; does not require preservativesof any kind to improve its keeping qualities. The remarkable groweth of the chilled meat industry in the Argentine has practically put N.Z. out of the market as faf as the beef trade is concerned and it behoves farmers and graziers to take an interest in tjiis matter which promises to do more for them than even the introduction of freezing many years ago. The meeting has been fixed for the evening before sale day in order to give those from a distance the chance of hearing the scheme expounded.