The Frozen Meat Trade.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 7

The Frozen Meat Trade.

We may look upon the trade in frozec moat between Europe and these colonios ns an established thing. Notwithstanding the fluctuations of prices in the English maiket, which sometimes naturally discourse s^ippew, wo may ro«t assured that rhe biiMin^ ill not be allowed to j Kill tlnoixj), but that by more liberal I aiiaujei.icnts as to freight and othci mean? ofk— cinjr the co-t of placing tiie moat on the home maiket the profits of the inuu-i]\ will mcuja-o a? tune goes on. ltap,>eai> horn a punted circular l^ucd ' bj Mi Buchanan, M H.R., Chan man of the Wtihngton Meat Lxpoit Company , thnt b\ lea-oil ot the piactieal freight monopoly in coimuhon wj(h this imjunf.mt indu.«m, comi>incd -v\ lth the e\cb.-i\ o lights aequued b\ the Haslam fiee/mg machine people, the dcvelopu, cnt vi tht tiado is .^eveiely h-indieapped. It is stat. d m confiunation , oftfpvM u rlnu the deai Mfaf Lliee/inL l ice/in- ; C'-'h a-iV would \eiy much ex<cnd then '■pel .t: >i,- li iitii,Mit liu'tteis could be moio -a l-iac'Liii', ai.an^cd. Mr Buchanan -.i\ - in hi- -ta"< nn ;i(. ;—.; — . '•li :^,u,(il U'iovd fart that the whole of the '-n-.ee at. the flisjio'-al ol the two Sinp\iU)[z (vnij'.ur.i- it al'caty i n<.'a^cd up 10 June i- r^t, and that the eiio> t^\\ Inch ha- o been in.de by t l m and other pail-, ot the filon\, loi Miim months pa-t, to secnie out-'.le -pare, have hithcito frilled J*. i al-o well kii(n\;i that the \\\ liin^ton l)i<tiici. lia^ «.ci-i.icd much le^ of tlie available -p.u eth.u. v, a«« tilled last season ; und, with the mei'ouiied supply of inaal i- -vic "o be axail.i'ilo .ipon the openin;: oi t ; >c Manawatu Conija-.y's lino in >'j\c:;":i # ihupou-!> low r.in^c of prices ru' "toL- m 1 k ino\ liable. Mc raayhaAc uecMv cable* announcing that lio.<en meat i- tt'iii.n at price- w-liicli would leave ub lr*ndM.mc ivturr,'., while we know that number of steamers are laid up in English doc k N but under exichnq cirenmbtanceo no cannot avail om«ehes"of them. Are we then to i emain helpless in the matter, and is there no escape irom this position? We have a ino-t poweitul lever in our Lands. Ample fiei^ht can be secured by way of Sydney < r Alelliourne, or by charter of outside vesseK to load in Kew Zealand. All that U necessary, therefore, is, that each settlei should at once instiucfc his a^ent to arrange his wool and produce fioij^lits only upon the lines abovo indicated. The Unectois of this Company only require that their hands may be strengthened by the support of tho^o interested, and they have no doubt of being able to put the freight question upon a sound basis."

Poultry Keeping on a Large Scale.

A man makes a neat yearly sum from fifty good fow Is, and another loses money on his flock of several hundred. Poultry in large numbers will pay good returns, but they must have ihe best of attention ; and the larger the flocks the more care is required, for disease is more apt to be generated in large flocks, while its ravage, v, hen it once gets a foothold, aie far vi ov bC . An ineica.M? in the size of a flock always means increased Mgilance and caio : 'and uhilo a small lot, bay, twenty five birds, will return a ceitatu amount oi profit, a flock of hui iiutulica and fifty will not return ton time* as much piolit as the ttveiitv-rive. Thi.-. stylo of figuring is whafc Jm«."dii>coimi«.Ml many a m«n, not only a\ ifcli poultn , but with mut cultuie, farming clr\ Unless under unu-ually iavoiuahle conditions, it i«, not good policy to have moie than tweh o or hi teen, or, ai the extreme, mom than twenty-lno fowls in the fame enulo.suie and under the s-une root j and where larue nunilx-KS are kept on one place, it is best to divide them into flocks ot about a do«en or t^o, giving them separate xun.s and hou-e^,. If tit knows or diseaso fcliows it-'eU in one lot, it can generally be confined to that flock, and stamped out more- readily than it the enliio lot of birds weie hcided together. Plenty of sun, air, and cxeicise aie conducive to healthtulnes-s; and, if ]>rotit is looked for, cannot be dispensed with.

Wiggins cays one of his ancesto/ra wob a Pilgrim father. Probably he was the Miflerite who predicted the end of the world in 1672. when there was such a scare in Boston. Trustworthy—A female of uncertain ago was asked by a census taker; "How old are you, madam?" "Thirty years," she replied. '• That's what you told me laet census, ten years ago." *• Well, I'm not one of the kind of women who tell on story one time and another Btory another.' " Texas Sif tings."