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TIIK WORLDS MEAT FUTURE 



that bo very tar away from the centres of consumption, and 

 tor a perishable article, Buch a favourable position should have 

 been attained by the New Zealand grazier, through means of 

 the refrigerating process. Since the inception of that process, 

 this favourable position lias always been present in New Zea- 

 land, first latent as it were, and for the last thirty years gradu- 

 ally materialising with the advance of the country and the 

 general progress <>f the frozen meat trade. It is based primarily 

 upon one thing — the suitability of the country in soil and 

 climate i<> grow English pasture grasses. 



Ghoui* o? Fat Bullocks, Xkw Zealand 



"The writer was once in the company of several men high 

 up in English public life. The subject of Xew Zealand came 

 up, and one of them asked abruptly : ' What is the cliie: 

 among the resources of your country ? Is it gold or timber, 

 or what ? ' The writer replied promptly : ' It is English 

 ^rass.' The looks that focussed upon him indicated both 

 surprise and doubt of his mental condition. But he had a 

 first-class opportunity to explain the singular adaptibility o'. 

 the country to grow these pasture glasses, and produce just 

 the class of meat wanted in England, and the excellent returns 

 which the cultivation of these pastures yielded to the shee] 



