Should
Means Be Found Of Converting The Meat Into Portable Soup, The Carcase Of
The Sheep Ought, Even At Its
Lowest value, to be considerably higher
than 10s. Nothing is heard about this yet, for the country is not
nearly
Stocked, so that the thing is not needed; but one would, a
priori, be under the impression that there should ultimately be no
insuperable difficulty in rescuing the meat from waste. It is a matter
which might well attract the attention of scientific men in England. We
should all be exceedingly obliged to them if they would kindly cause
sheep to be as high as 15s. or 17s. seven years hence, and I can see no
reason why, if the meat could be made use of, they should fall lower.
In other respects, what I have written about sheep on terms is true to
the present day.
{4} The above is true to the present day (August, 1862), save that a
higher price must be given for the goodwill of a run, and that sheep are
fully 30s. a head. Say 8000 pounds instead of 6000 pounds, and the rest
will stand. 8000 pounds should do the thing handsomely.
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