4 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



which the meat is carried have chambers fitted 

 in such a manner that the meat can be kept fresh 

 during the voyage by currents of cooled air. From 

 Australia and South America the same trade has 

 made a successful beginning, a new French cooling 

 process, by which the temperature of the air can 

 be reduced twenty degrees below zero (freezing 

 without the use of ice), having been introduced. 

 Large shipmentshave thus been successfully made, 

 and most of them have arrived in good condition. 

 Should this plan, in addition to the growing 

 importation of live animals, prove safe and suc- 

 cessful, we shall have the vast prairies of America, 

 North and South, and the rich grazings of 

 Australia added to our own pastures as new 

 sources of supply. This will be a great benefit 

 to the consumers of meat in this country, but 

 probably more by preventing a further rapid rise 

 in the price of meat than by effecting a heavy 

 reduction upon it. For the English market will 

 take only the best quality. Under any circum- 

 stances the English producer has the advantage 

 of about a penny a pound in the cost and risk of 

 transport against his Transatlantic and Australian 



