Waitara Freezing Works.

These extensive Freezing, Chilling, and Canning works, now in operation, directly influence so large a portion of the whole of the Province as to call for something more than a passing remark. With the means at page 15 their disposal, the company are prepared to slaughter sixty bullocks and three hundred sheep a day. A considerable quantity of the meat will be canned, the balance shipped to a foreign market. It is very evident that these works, coupled with a fair railway rate, will develope an amount of prosperity scarcely at the present time even imagined. Eventually, all kinds of food, including milk, fish, etc., may be sent forth as preserved articles, whilst thousands of tons of freight will be added to the already excellent shipping business of the Waitara. It is proposed that the blood from the slaughter-house should be led into a tank, fitted with a trap door, so as to allow of its flowing into the river at ebb tide. The light soils of this Province being somewhat deficient in phosphates, it is greatly to be regretted that means are not adopted towards rendering this waste material a boon to the farmer. A furnace might he constructed, in which the blood could be thoroughly charred, which would make it of easy carriage to where it could be intermixed with farm yard manure. It is true, by this process, the greater portion of the nitrogen would be driven off, still the phospates would remain.