MEAT FOR THE PEOPLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 9

MEAT FOR THE PEOPLE.

DAY OF THE SMALL JOINT. ADVICE TO CATTLE BREEDERS. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. March 31. A lecture was delivered at the Royal Sydney Show on the development of breeding in beef cattle by Dr. G. £. tindlay. The lecturer said it was predicted that the price of beef cattle would reach its peak within the next eight years, and would then probably come down considerably owing to over-production by the great beef-growing countries of the world. The day of the large joint at table had gone. Too much money was spent in luxuries nowadays, therefore the housewife or the flat dweller ordered only the smallest joint necessary for one meal, without fat. This hold good in America, Europe and Britain, and also to a growing extent in Australia. No economist ever expected anything in future but these small cuts of meat. Tho animals now being produced in Australia were, in many instances, not suitable for the markets of to-day. It would be difficult to radically chango the breed of cattle in Australia, but what breeders should aim at was a small, neat, plump animal that would come to maturity between two and threa years of age-