NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR MEAT COLLECTION 

 AND DISTRIBUTION. 



A National system for dealing with meat is an obvious 

 ^ecessity and the system outlined for distributing cheese 

 could easily be adopted for all kinds of meat, viz. : Beef, 

 Mutton and Bacon. This would entail the establishment 

 of District Slaughter-houses, to which all Farmers living in 

 the District would be required to deliver their fat cattle, 

 sheep and pigs. The Farmer would be paid on weight and 

 quality of Beef, Mutton or Bacon, as the case might be, and 

 this would encourage meat production. 



A large chilling room would be essential, with each 

 slaughter-house, so as to secure in some cases a more market- 

 able product, store the meat, and regulate the output. 

 The same method of distribution should be observed viz. : 

 all meat should be sold direct to local retail meat purveyors ; 

 any surplus to be sent to other Districts at different parts 

 of the Country. 



The collection, grading and packing of eggs could easily 

 be added as a department with eitrier the meat or the cheese"- 

 making centre in each district. 



NATIONAL SYSTEM OF FRUIT PRESERVATION. 



There is probably no branch of Farming where there is 

 liable to be more waste of food than in growing such perish- 

 able commodities as fruit and vegetables. A market glut 

 may mean the loss of tons of valuable fruit to the nation, 

 which could have been prevented if only there had been 

 local facilities to deal with same in the most approved 

 manner. In each fruit growing district of sufficient size, 

 there should be a Preserving and Conserving Factory, where 

 the fruit and vegetables could be dried, canned, bottled or 

 preserved as the case may be and supplied direct to retail 

 grocers in the same way as cheese. 



NATIONAL SYSTEM OF GRANARIES. 



Why shouldn't the system of district collection extend 

 to Grain which is such an essential Food crop ? Many Farmers 

 have no suitable facilities to store their wheat, barley, or oats 

 after thrashing them out. Rats and mice play havoc with the 



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