N.Z. MEAT INDUSTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 8

N.Z. MEAT INDUSTRY

TRIBUTE BY BIG BACKER. Mr L. F. Swift, president of the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, is at pi esent visiting the Dominion. in the course of an interview on ihe meat trade, he stated that as a result «-i irsnetnot: i t several New Zealand meat works, he found them thoroughly up io date, but he found cattle were badly bruised. All cattle intended h.r meat should t>e dehorned Tn Chicago, in one day's killing—and sixty-three million cattle were killed la&t year in his yards- th.'v did not find enough horns to fill a barrel. “I would.’ Mr Swift. ’recom--r.d your gra -k-rs to fatten as quick-_ \ as |>ossihie ;.nd market the animals , - young as po-«»ible. It is better to have them around two to two and ai.alf years, if they can be got fat enough, but to market them at thr<ej and ;'-ha’i to four or even five years to take a risk that they would not he' ♦.esirable either to buyers or consumAsked as to the prospects of New Zealand meat trade to the United States, Mr Swift said that the duty, which was round about 24) per cent., " as in his opinion, too high to permit of .my productive • rade in that direction.