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Windsor and other places equi-distant, are
large purchasers, finding it more to their
pecuniary advantage to buy dead meat ready for
retail distribution than to prepare the carcases
themselves in their own private slaughterhouses.
During the year 1897 there has been a
further increase in the quantity of meat delivered
at the Central Markets, the weight
representing 12,763 tons 10 cwts. 3½ qrs., or,
say 3.3 per cent. in excess of 1896. This will
be seen by the following figures, collated mainly
from the reports of the Market Superintendent,
Mr. N. Stephens, to which I have added the
ratio of sound to unsound meat, including in
both instances the 24 years I have held my
present office.