Report of the Reorganisation Commission for fat stock for England and Wales.

  • Great Britain. Agricultural Marketing Reorganisation Commission.
Date:
1934
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Credit: Report of the Reorganisation Commission for fat stock for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of pig meat and 3-9 million cwt. in respect of beef. The rate of increase accelerated greatly during 1931 and the early part of 1932 (paragraph 19 and Table [V). 7. Seasonality of supplies of butchers’ meat.—In examining the seasonality of supplies of butchers’ meat, we have confined our attention to fresh, chilled and frozen beef, fresh and frozen veal, fresh and frozen mutton and lamb, and fresh, salted and frozen pork. The principal kinds of meat derived from cattle, sheep and pigs, which we have not regarded as comprising part of the supply of butchers’ meat, are bacon and hams with which we are not directly concerned, and tinned and canned beef and pig meat. The gross imports of canned meat of these kinds in recent years are shown below :— Tinned and canned beef Tinned and canned pig meat From From From From Empire | foreign Total. Empire | foreign | Total. countries. | countries. countries.; countries. ewt. cwt. cwt. cwt. cwt. ewt. 1927 37,472 932,188; 969,660) 5,004 99,860 | 104,864 1928 41,054 928,354| 969,408] 6,968 116,849 | 123,817 1929 17,754 854,177; 871,931; 9,551 134,814 | 144,365 1930 17,892 | 1,079,012} 1,096,904) 7,095 142,308 | 149,403 1931 8,527 | 1,065,926} 1,074,453) 7,693 157,600 | 165,293 Average of 1927-31 24,540 971,931} 996,471! 7,262 130,286 | 137,548 1932 21,582 731,002} 752,584: 5,756 140,560 ; 146,316 1933 (a) (a) 855,303 (a) (a) 174,856 (a) Details not yet published. During the years 1927 to 1931 the average annual supplies of the various categories of butchers’ meat were as follows * :-— Cwt. Percentage 000 of Total. Beef 25,851 60°6 Veal ee 28 908 2-1 Mutton and Lamb 11,260 26-4. Pork 4,630 10-9 Total ... 42,649 100-0 a * For detailed analysis see Table VI.