Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter III. Present sources of supply

Collection:: Economics Books

92 and lamb are received from Chile, and Brazilian beef is shipped in quantity to the Continent; some years must elapse before these States are in a position to export meat in considerable quantities and of the quality required by the English trade. Moreover, only parts of these States are suitable for cattle raising. Qur principal sources of supply are, therefore, Australia, New Zealand, Argentine and Uruguay. A paragraph on South Africa is added, not because the Union is an important contri- butor to our supplies at present, but because, in position and area, it has potentialities for a chilled and frozen trade, and has recently been supplying Continental markets. (i) Australia. (a) Beef.—This great Dominion ranks second only to South America as a supplier of beef to Great Britain, though the figures for 1924 show that it is at present but a very poor second. Nevertheless, now that beef is again a promising article of commerce, and, although authorities differ as to the possibilities that Australia offers, there seems to be little reason why Australia’s output of beef should not be materially increased. Every State in the Commonwealth is engaged to a greater or lesser degree in the meat-export trade, but the chief centres are in the eastern States, namely, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The first of these is primarily the beef State, while the two last concentrate on mutton and lamb, their beef shipments being small and depending largely on surpluses or special cuts from the local trade of Sydney and Melbourne. Fair quantities of boneless beef are shipped to Great Britain from both of these ports, Melbourne boneless bull-beef having a high reputation on Glasgow market, where this commodity commands a ready sale owing to its leanness. Considerable quantities of beef are produced in northern New South Wales for internal consumption and export, and it is interesting to note that from one of the meat-works in that region, chilled beef is shipped to the populous districts further south. Beef is also produced in Northern Territory and in Western and Southern Australia. Queensland is the beef-exporting State of the Commonwealth ; the industry has, however, to contend with great difficulties compared with South America, its rival in European markets. First, the climate is normally dry and, at times, droughty, so that there is frequently a shortage of grasses. This, again, shows itself in the longer period needed for fattening, four, or as many as five, years being necessary in places. If rain does not fall towards the end of the year, the cattle do not finish well and a poor season results. The cattle are raised on stations and farms, whence they are driven to the meat-works near the coast. Stations in the coastal area are in a better position for supplying good cattle to the meat-works than inland stations, as railways are not. as yet, highly developed and cattle from distant stations

Access restriction

Copyright

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

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation