Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. Present sources of supply

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a CHAPTER III.—PRESENT SOURCES OF SUPPLY. Surplus meat sufficient in amount to justify an export business has depended, in the past, upon large pastures of the ranch type, a condition only present in countries of large spaces and small populations. As such areas become closely settled and industrialised, lack of space, increasing costs of pro- duction and a rising domestic demand, relegate the export business to a secondary position compared with the internal trade and, indeed, as in the case of beef in the United States, combine ocradually to bring about the point in comparative costs at which imports become economically possible. Virgin areas which fulfil the export conditions are rare in the northern hemisphere—the hemisphere of population—but practically every important country in the southern hemisphere is suitable. Local condi- tions—drought, disease, lack of suitable grasses for building the meat demanded by modern taste—modify here and there this suitability, but these modifications, in view of the keen interest in agricultural problems, may, in time, be overcome. It follows, 00, that the regions suitable for meat production are confined to the temperate zone, though there are certain subtropical areas, such, for example, as Brazil and parts of Queensland, where altitude ensures a temperate climate, that can be utilised for the purpose. The tropics are unsuitable for the raising of rattle, but present great possibilities for the raising of foodstuffs which would enable larger herds to be carried in the temperate regions than would be possible without additional supplies of feed. * In the following summary of the present sources of supply, attention is, therefore, devoted solely to the southern hemi- sphere, because it is from southern countries that Great Britain derives practically all its supplies of refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb. Canada, it is true, supplies small quantities of frozen and chilled beef and smaller quantities of chilled and frozen mutton and lamb, but is more important as a supplier of cattle on the hoof, so that it falls more naturally into the study of the live-meat trade; but its potential importance in the trade in refrigerated meat must be borne in mind. This applies, too, to Eastern Asia, notably to Siberia and Manchuria. From the former, dairy-produce is exported in large quantities and, with improved transport facilities, closer settlement, and additional capital, a meat export business is possible ; time is, of course, a necessary factor. From Manchuria. some mutton is already exported. to this country. Regarding South America, attention is chiefly devoted to he Argentine and to Uruguay, which, being similar in general conditions, have been described together. Other States, namely, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Columbia, are not, at oresent, important as suppliers of beef, though supplies of mutton See Dr. FW. Shanahan © ‘“ Animal Foodstiiffe *

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