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Show COMPirhwQ WITH Ct-ttCASS. Korvraj Mailing Arrangements to Snpptj London With Mutton, London will shortly havo tho advantage advan-tage of another meat supply this tinw from Norway which, according to the London Telegraph, is perfecting ar rangements for supplying tho English metropolis with as much mutton, alive or dead, as it can spare for exportation. Systematic experiments wore made re cently under tho supervision of tha Stavanger Agricultural society, and tho results wero so satisfactory that in the approaching cold season it is to bo repeated re-peated on a larger scalo. It appears that 80 shoep, each weighing weigh-ing about 100 pounds, were fattened Cor a week or so until they turned the scale at from 115 pounds to 123 poondi They were then shipped to London, where they realized an average price, after deducting commission, of abon; $7.50, and as the total outlay had only been about $6. 50 per head there was iet profit of nearly $1 on each animal Forty were also sent over with th skins, hoofs and interior intact, but'on theso throe was an average loss of 10 shillings per head, partly explained by the skins being damaged through bad packing. Nevertheless tho Stavanger society oas come to the conclusion that tho business promises to bo remunerative, and tho English people havo thus an additional guarantee of an adequate tuDDly of mnttaa |
