| Show CANNED MEATS ABROAD The Tho gloomiest predictions of bf the meat packers regarding the destruction of their foreign trade in canned meats eats seem In a fair way to be realized It will be remembered that at t the thc time Ume of the passage of the meat inspection bill and the attendant jungle expo exposures exposures exposures the packers 1 ack rs said that their for foreign foreign eign trade In canned goods would be destroyed A comparison of the figures for July 1906 with the tha same month of 1905 may prove to be interesting to the reader Nearly pounds of or canned canne beef beet was sent by the States to various foreign countries in July 1905 O OIn In July 1906 the shipments fell to less les than pounds a shrinkage c I of or orI not It is true that thata a part of this decrease can be account accounted ed for by the ending of the war var between Japan and Russia The falling off in shipments to Japan was wac 1 pounds or from pounds to 24 pounds This however leaves a practically shortage un unaccounted unaccounted unaccounted accounted for as far ar a the th war Walt theory is concerned It is accounted for l r though In the shortage of shipments lo to the United Kingdom which decreased by almost exactly that amount And this decrease is attributable directly to the expos exposures exposures exposures ures It Is Js thought by some observers rs that the figures for August will wIn show an even een greater difference when com coin compared compared pared with August t lor of 1905 1005 At the same time the shipments of salted or pickled beef bacon pork and lard were heavier in July 1906 than in July 1905 And the reduction in exports of fresh beef bee and hams was only slightly less in hl July of this year And for the canned meat situation the packers have havo only themselves to blame If they had not made a bitter r fight against the meat inspection Mil bill there would have been no official report about the packing industry at loat ast the report would not have been made public For its part The Herald ran can cannot an annot not find in the decline of the industry any reason for the shedding of tears In time the packers may restore their for foreign foreign eign markets but they must bring about the restoration by clean prod products products products carefully prepared and fit for the public to eat |
