. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA REVIEW, Cuba Exports Dressed Beef. The Alatcdcro Industrial, a Spanisli company of Havana, Cuba, with a capital of $2,000,000 paid up, has entered the field of New York as a competitor for its fresh dressed beef trade. It has been engaged in supplying the local market of Havana and 'he island with meat, and has extensive ranches near Santiago, extending to the middle of Cuba, on which it raises its own cattle for this trade. Breeding has so increased that there has been a surplus over home consuming wants, for which an ex- port market had to be found. A refrigera
. The Cuba review. 18 THE CUBA REVIEW, Cuba Exports Dressed Beef. The Alatcdcro Industrial, a Spanisli company of Havana, Cuba, with a capital of $2,000,000 paid up, has entered the field of New York as a competitor for its fresh dressed beef trade. It has been engaged in supplying the local market of Havana and 'he island with meat, and has extensive ranches near Santiago, extending to the middle of Cuba, on which it raises its own cattle for this trade. Breeding has so increased that there has been a surplus over home consuming wants, for which an ex- port market had to be found. A refrigerat- ing plant was built at Havana and a mod- ern up-to-date packing house. When this plant was reconstructed the company entered the field as the pioneer ex- porter of beef from Cuba to New York. This occurred about a month ago and has been followed by four weekly shipments since, consisting of about 100 carcases each. These have been distributed through the principal wholesale markets in New York and Brooklyn, and have found such ready sale that they have already established a market for all arrivals at the same prices as our own gras-fed American or Western beef, of the better and even best qualities. Retail butchers claim that consumers prefer it to our native beef, because it is more juicy, being generally more fat than ours. These Cuban cattle are slaughtered when two years old, hke our native stock, and their average weight is 600 to 700 pounds. which is a good average for grass-fed cattle at the West. These carcases have been sold whole- sale at 6'i(<jj7hc by the side, or the same as our grass and alfalfa fed beef. Cuba has one great advantage over the United States in the cost of production in the milder climate, where pasturage is pre- served and good the year around, requiring no feeding of stock. As to how much the production of cattle on the island can be increased, it is prob- able that the successful introduction of the beef in this market would stimulate cattle
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