CONTENTS 



Introduction- by Sir E. Owen Cox, k.b.e., Australian Meat 



Administrator 

 Foreword ..... 

 The World's Meat Future 

 Summary of Meat Supplies 

 Trade and Empire 

 Australia ; 



,, Causes of Shortage in Live Stock and Sugg 



Remedies ..... 

 ,, Diagrams of Meat Exports 



„ Climatic Control of Production 



,, Reconstruction and Expansion 



„ Diagram Illustrating the Above 



„ The Indian Zebu for Australia 



,, Fixing Prices ..... 



„ Cattle Prospects in Western Australia 



New Zealand ....••• 

 „ The Frozen Meat Trade . 



Argentina .....-•• 

 ,, Shorthorns . 



„ tlerra del fuego and southern patagonia 



,, The Argentine Mesopotamia 



„ The Back Country .... 



,, The Plate Coast Belt 



,, Refrigerator Motor Trucks 



„ Argentine Meat Consumption and Export 



„ Frigorificos and Meat Factories 



„ Exportation ...•'• 



„ Home Consumption .... 



Cattle Weights — Live and Dead 



Brazil 



„ Brazil as 

 Uruguay 



a Pastoral Country 



Paraguj 



Chile 

 Patagonia 

 United States 



Centralized Live-Stock Marketing 

 Improving Power of the Shorthorn 



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