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of 7 lb. each, fetched Q^cl. per pound. The attendance 
of buyers was, on the whole, pretty numerous, and the 
auctioneer expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the 
experiment. 
MEAT PRESERVING. 
Meat preserving, says the Melbourne Age , is being 
conducted with vigour, and the total amount sent away 
every month is large. One or two companies are getting 
into operation, but at present it pays well to buy sheep for 
their tallow; the boiling down establishments are still kept 
going, and more sheep are thus disposed of than preserved. 
In fact, when meat is the principal object, the legs are almost 
the only part preserved just now, the remainder of the 
carcase being boiled down. And as long as tallow pays so 
well there will be little trouble taken to perfect any other 
mode of curing except those already in use. We hear no- 
thing now r of the freezing or chilled-air process, about which 
so many were enthusiastic a short time since. The settlers 
seem quite careless about it, and as long as they are content 
to sell fat sheep and cattle at present prices, other people 
are not likely to be impelled to further action. The public 
get their meat cheap enough, and wmuld lose rather than 
gain by a change, and the parties to whom exporting is a 
business have a fair margin of profit with little risk so long 
as they can buy at boiling-down prices. Thus the saving of 
the whole carcass as meat wmuld only benefit the stockowners 
directly, and the bulk of their body seem to care more about 
a new f land-law than about securing a better price for their 
surplus sheep. The further advance in the value of the wool 
will be material help to many, and perhaps, now that the 
land question is disposed of for another ten years, they may 
pluck up spirit enough to aid in improving the source of 
their income. — Journal of the Society of Arts. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Monthly Council, March 2nd. 
The Annual Grant to the Uoyal Veterinary College . 
Major-General Viscount Bridport (Chairman) re- 
ported that, in the opinion of the committee, the portion of 
the grant to the Royal Veterinary College (£50) w ? hich, by the 
resolutions of 1862, was to be appropriated for researches 
