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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11279, 28 May 1891, Page 3

Professor James Long, a London ■writer bids us consider what refrigeration has done—not for agriculturists merely, but also for trade and commerce. It is refrigeration that has made it possible for New Zealand alone to send us four-and-a-half million carcases of mutton. It has even created that Colony's butter trade. It has, moreover, enabled our meat-salesmen in Smith field to protect themselves, by a vast system of underground storage, against tbe heavy losses which they used to suffer from hot summers. It has also made it practicable for great many firms to buy meat and game -when it is cheap and store it for use when wanted. In Hamburg there is a butcher who slaughters a thousand pigs every day for the English market. But for refrigeration his system would be impossible. The advantages of cold storage, however, seem still far from feeing fully apreciated Mr Long tells us that the farmers in Wales and many parts of England who supply the market with what is known as "tub butter " at 8d to lid a pound might store it quite fresh at little more expense than that of the abundant salt used under tho present system, and thus furnish an article worth in many cases from 25 to 86 per cent more than are now getting for it.