LIVE STOCK EXPORT FROM ARGEN TINA.
Mr Thomas Borthwick has favoured our London frozen meat trade corre spondent with the following notes on the trade in live stock from the Argen tine, and the possioility of bringing sheep and cattle from New Zealand and Australia : —“ This question is now coming fast to the front. Judging by what has come from the River Plate— both cattle, sheep, and lambs—for the last four months, there is no doubt the trade can be done. There was scarcely a single vessel with frozen meat during that time, besides other steamers, that has not brought a deck load of live stock both to London and Liverpool. There is a ready sale at both places, where they are slaughtered during ten days allowed by Government. The prices in London and Liverpool average from 35s to 36s for sheep, and 32s to 33s for lambs, while cattle on the whole have been poor, ranging from LI2 10s to LI6. The sheep, particu larly the lambs, which have been trained to feed out of troughs, came as ripe and nice as if they had just left their pastures ; in fact, the lambs grow and thrive during the journey. There are a number of small, poor boats which lose heavily in rough weather ; but steamers of a large size, though smaller than those in the New Zealand trade, lose very few. Take two car goes lately into London ; one started with 1281, and landed 1270 alive, losing 11 ; another lot of 800 lost 6.
