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The vote of thanks having been carried unanimously, 
Mr. VALENTINE, in reply, said it had been a great pleasure to him to prepare 
the paper, and he hoped it might be of some use in putting the extracts of meat 
from the colonies on a better footing as to quality. He had not mentioned 
Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia, or Tasmania, because he had 
only dealt with those colonies in which the production was being largely carried 
on at present, but he was quite conversant with the facilities which the other 
colonies possessed. One great object in bringing forward the Australasian 
colonies was to show that they had the means of supplying this raw material 
on the cheapest possible basis. In the United States he could not but think 
that the rapidly increasing population would soon consume a much larger 
proportion of the output. He fully endorsed what had been said about 
adulteration, and was convinced that if the law were applied to these extracts 
it would give the high-class manufacturers a much better chance. He must 
say, from the very prominent advertisements which appeared about the 
blending of certain materials with others to increase their nutritive value, that 
some of the statements made were altogether unwarranted. His view was that 
the exportation from the colonies should be confined to the “extractum carnis,”’ 
as anything which required to be added could be obtained and manipulated 
better in this country. His opinion was that the extract was a “‘ pick-me-up,” 
and about the best oil one could apply to grease the wheels of the human 
machine, 
