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 air cooled 

 by ice. During the last winter and spring large 

 shipments have 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 

 added to our own pastures as new sources of 

 supply. This will be a great benefit to the con- 

 sumers of meat in this country, but probably 

 more by preventing a further rapid rise in the 

 price of meat than by effecting a reduction upon 

 it. The American people are themselves much 

 greater consumers of meat, man for man, than 

 the English, and when prosperity returns to that 

 country, their home consumption will increase, 

 and the surplus for exportation be diminished. 

 Moreover, the English market will take only the 

 best quality. Under any circumstances the 

 English producer has the advantage of at least 

 a penny a pound in the cost and risk of transport 

 against his Transatlantic competitor — an advan- 



