Argentine Chilled Beef, 



The Butter Industry in Argentina. 



The imports of butter into the United Kingdom from the 

 Argentine Republic increased from 10,860 cwts. in 1897 to 

 22,787 cwts. in 1901, in which year H.M. Consul at Buenos 

 Ayres states in his last report to the Foreign Office that the 

 butter trade made very considerable progress. There are 

 moreover opportunities for the development of the industry, 

 as 20,000,000 head of cattle exist in the country, and the 

 Argentine summer coincides with the European winter. No 

 provision is made for milch cows at the annual cattle shows 

 of the principal agricultural society, and it was quite 

 impossible not long ago to get milk or butter at a farm where 

 thousands of cattle were kept. This is, however, being 

 rapidly altered. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,767.] 



The Board of Agriculture are informed by the High Com- 

 missioner for Canada that the Canadian Government have 



Tuberculin Test sent Mr - A - G - Ho pkins, Veterinary 

 for Cattle Ex- Quarantine Officer for Canada, to this 

 ported to Canada. country> to apply the tuberculin test to all 



cattle over six months old intended for export, for breeding 

 purposes, from the United Kingdom to Canada. All com- 

 munications regarding the testing of animals should be 

 addressed to Mr. Hopkins, at the Canadian Government 

 Agency, 52, St. Enoch Square, Glasgow. 



H.M. Consul at Buenos Ayres refers to the export of chilled 



beef from Buenos Ayres as a new industrv 

 Argentine J J 



Chilled which was inaugurated in 1901. I he 



Beef. chilling process maintains the atmo- 



sphere in which the meat is kept at such a temperature that 

 the meat keeps fresh until placed on the market. It appears 

 that actually freezing the beef reduces the juices to particles of 

 ice, and the solid matter is incapable of reabsorbing the juices 

 when subsequently thawed. The liquid consequently drains 

 away, and the meat deteriorates. The first shipments of chilled 



