Amercan Competition.

Southland Times, Issue 8046, 29 June 1885, Page 4

Amercan Competition.

There Was a larg« Ratbenng at tbe ; Farmerß %ClriVßbom; f o^h Hall, Newcaaae, teceotly, to b^tr^ paper on « American Competition, by W^Mbreton Frewen oi Wy.oming^JCJ.S. v - Mt' Btef^tdealt exhaustiyely ;with the immense > and < increasing -capabilities of; America for supplying British markets. , H,e; kMfvpoken tcf* great many western : gro wers, and they were unanimous that wheats could be grown profitably at 60,<*nfc p«r bushel, that^as, at Mi petyqt^^d iflhy :ihaii who took an intelligent View of the position must * leoogutae the iact that the)sendeney:was for prices to go lower still. There were on all ■ideVsigtis ef scientific development and m cwiß«krcommnnication % and he could quite beliw^at«w*th an unbroken water route betwe^tne Bed Biver Valley and Liverpool, that immenee Region would dictate the price of wheat ©Ver the whole worlds The puce, at which ipfidtice could be brought to market was regulated largely by the amount of water carriage ; and the cost pt bringing wheattbe four thousand odd miles frpov Oaluth to Liverpool was less than $wice the ;dpst of earning wheat from ;^Newoaitle to|tbndon. Turning tb^the subject bt ? tfie;»^l4'B meat ■npply^he said thdr catUe in America wbold notfattouat all grazing and must be finished by. stall. feieding ; and the question for the Britash-^aimer wai»,wbpild they ;take those cattleand finish them, or Ehoujd the cattle be handed over tobe fattened by the farmers of ttemaize belt of the State? Was it better that EngUsli ot '^Amerlcati farmers secure the profit of ""'fattening those stores ? He had tried experiments -at Superior, the position of which place he believed would result in the- establishment in the near future of -gigantic beef manufictories;andthat from thence beef could -be supplied at nearly thef lowest possible price, at a price which, even If they^had those* cheap Western stores m Britain, the British farmer could scarcely beat^ He 1 advocated the importation' of the lean c*attle> v %ltb: as iiach fodder aa would make up the',^Tfi?rcnces of 'tbe home supply. It was to their interest^ ai ' farmers to substi- ■ tuW a live cftUe trade for a dead--a trade in stores^for* trade in fat animals. 'He referred to.theJdepresseH state ;.q!agricultnre, j and {asked .could they: vrquderithe position i was critical when the laws directly, fostered a free trade in a finished- product— that* was beef— while it^forhade tho entrance of the live animal-*-ihc l'taw^matenal of ; that beef ? The live stock trade would be only a form of vi cb-operationlakkigitKb" place of the. present baneful eompetitibniuSdead meat, instead of, af^at present 600 pounds of dressed meat , being brongbt to the MetroDolitan markets, we would have 1000 pounds on four legs bxonght-on'to our owa farms. .Mr Frewn proceeded to contrast American railroad rates j witfrtbose of BngUnd, andsaid over-produc-tion of railroads here had 'foroecl np both f reightand paßaenger rates to an immoderate : figare f ' wlthont' making :buß"rness profitable ; eyen.to" railroads themselves. English agr'V culture required the abaa-Idnment of the production of those staple?, such as the cereals, Which could come great die tat. ces ia bulk withlittle^6r /ndSloss; of value by damag^ J j And because store cattle/ unlike fat cattle; COuld^cbAW'lnto; their hands to bexfioiahed, j tiTejinrinkage was not important. On this ■fete ihe*9attt<B took on flo?h from 1 thje Tery Bt«rt» _ JJipwimept showed that bridging lewi^cattie : 'andUstores^oyer he started on rather bettsr terms in "England than be did v In- IlliooiS; to f eeel f or^the English .' market,' 1 even were the'climatic advantages of Illinois equtl with 'England. The waste was even greiterinicleadnieat^than ia fat live stook { aM"lwloinrtl"itxpßtrtheß3meto^etd l pound of beef aj^. 7^poundß of feed, for the imported Jean anfmal».l"T^e present contagiovs disease. legislation -forcing cheap railway charges and cneap shipping freights 'into direct ahfl jnercdless'coinpetitioii with us, whereas the> too would prefer and profit "by the co.bpera« tive-^aUe^w'ere' they allowed. ■He advocated ft free use oFine^knife m against port slaughter. "l^etKeiPftan^ or fat,- he felt convinced that the greae^lake'syaUm' was destined in the near iutureta secure to England masses of ohea^m^at^fbr the same economic reasons that A£ had; already irevolutiqnifad' the price of?wheat.;.i|bißj would,, be,,, as .weniiglit decide, either co-operative or competitiye with English agriculture. „ '\, :'"* ;...,. "'; ■"