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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864-1933) (about)
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The Town Marie Meat-Curing
Experiments.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISBANE COURIER,
Sir,-If the Courier's report of tho papor read by Mr. F. R. Davis bo correct anont the preserv- ing meat by the infiltration process at the Queensland National Association, on the 2nd instant, I must say that one statement ¡b very contradictory as to his general assertions. After pointing out
1. That his firm lost 10,000 tierces, which were entirely damned through either Btupidity, wilful negligence, or gross ignorance.
2. That in the second year of his working his firm netted a profit of jEÍOO and over on 250 cattle purchased at from £i 10s. to £5 per head.
3. That in the third year, when his firm had every prospect of a succosbíul issue, thoy wore defeated and had to succumb through tho diffi- culties of their agents in Sydney, causing the latter to sell at 30s. per tierce what eventually realised from £5 to £7 per tierce, and owing to
so many losses thoy lind to close their works.
4. He winds up with the assertion-evidently an afterthought, and BeetnB to me to be rather a disingenuous one-that " in great measure he attributed the failure of the establishment at Town Marie to the absence of pure water." How can he have raised this libel on Town Marie, after his stating how well the procesa worked with them the second and third years, nnd that not an ounce of meat went bad during that time, and not a Bingle remark in his papor anent impure water as being one of the causes of their failure ? I must Bay that at the least it was moro than bad taste to io his best to damage Town Marie as being an improper place for curing moat, after his own confesaion as to the high prices obtained for the firm'B meat cured at Town Mario.
In one of Mr. Davis' letters published in your 'paper ho states that ho would be glad to give every information ho possibly could aa to the .procesa ; na I much wished to bo prepared for the first opening of a ctance to try Japan, I wrote asking him to kindly let me know the proper proportion of ingredients, but, though my letter was posted some five weeks since, be has not deigned to give me a reply.-Yours, &c,
Bremer Cottage, June 4, 1879.
J. IVORY.