Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1028803699

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-43559

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fisher, Irving http://d-nb.info/gnd/118533541; Brown, Harry Gunnison http://d-nb.info/gnd/123548152

Title:: Die Kaufkraft des Geldes

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 435 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Kapitel. Einwirkung der Geldsysteme auf die Kaufkraft

Collection:: Economics Books

p have to be driven in, which entails loss of condition. Indeed, when there is a shortage both of water and feed, the effects of droving on cattle are frequently severe and, at times of actual drought, may be disastrous. Insect pests, particularly the warble-fly and tick, are also troublesome. Then again, unlike South America, Queensland has a beef “ season,” that is to say, killing does not take place throughout the year. The season begins in the early months of the year according to the condition of the cattle coming forward which, in turn, depends on rainfall. Usually the season begins in February or March and may begin as late as April, although seme works may be able, by drawing on near cattle, to start operations aarlier than others. The end of the season is also uncertain. [f the rain has been heavy during the season so that there has been plenty of both water and feed, the cattle may be sufficient in numbers and finish to enable the works to operate until the closing months of the year. Sometimes, however, the season ands in or about the middle of the year, which means that the whole output for the season has been treated within three or four months. The curve of Australian beef supplies in Diagram D shows how erratic has been the output during the last few vears. Queensland beef is graded in three qualities, first quality known in the trade as “ g.a.q.”” (good average quality), second juality known as ‘““f.a.q.” (fair average quality), and third juality known as ‘“ second f.a.q.”” The last is not usually shipped to the English market, but is suitable for canning and, during the last three years, has been exported to the Continent. Some of the meat-works are strict in their grading and maintain a uniform standard so that the g.a.q. of their brand varies little from year to year. Others are said to be less strict, especially during a dry season.* Ambiguity is, perhaps, inevitable, in the interpre- tation of these qualitative standards. On the one hand, it is asserted that the term must signify good average quality of the particular season concerned, but this is, at once, a variable standard, for cattle which, in a good season, would be second guality may, in a poor season, be the best that are sent into the works. On the other hand, the merchant on this side naturally insists on the term being applied, not seasonally, but generally, that is to say, the standard must, for commercial purposes, be absolute and not relative to the conditions of any one season, Fortunately, this conception is receiving wide acknowledgment in the Dominion; it seems probable that the newly appointed Meat Council (see p. 50) will seek to establish high standards and to maintain them. Since 1920, the Queensland beef industry has been passing through a time of severe depression owing to the glut in European markets. In 1922, a bounty of ld. per pound was granted by See also para. 13, ‘“ Report of Immerial Economic Committes.” md. 249%. 19925. *

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