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among the Indians Of the Plains, you will
do me, aud perhaps the community, favor
b. inserting the following which clip from
Biock~ood. ! can add my own testimony To
hat Of the writer, that horse meat, when f'.
is tcndcrcr, more Juicy, and more savory than
beef; and if any farmer in the country should
be compelled to kill horse, | take this method
Of informing each and every such person that
if he will send me a good piece for roast,
| will invite him to as delicious a dinner as
he ever sat down to.
FORT STEnACoOM, W. L.
"lluzard, the celebrated veterinary surgeon,
records, that during the revolution the popula.
ton of Paris was fed for six months on horse
flesh. 1t is true that when the beef was known
to be that of horses, some com laintS were made; {;
but in spite of the strong pTejudices and the ter
rors such discovery raised, no single case of
Illness was attributable to this food Larrey, the
great army surgeon, declares that on very many
occasions during the compaigns, he administered
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it injurious, he found il powerfully contributed
to their convalescence, and dr0re d,eGy scorJu-
tic Epidemic. Other testimony is cited, and NJ
St Hilaire feels himself abundant'y authorised
to dlc'are that horse flesh is as wholesome ami
nutritious as oX-flesh The advocates of horse
flesh have given banquets both in Germany
and France, at which the comparative merits of
horses, cows and oxen were appreciated. In
1925 the Prefect Of Police chose commits
sion Of eminent men to inquire into the oua..
ity Of the flesh taken from horses which had
died, or had been recently killed, in Paris and
its environs These commissioners all shared
the general prejudice; yet in their report
they avowed that tive cannot but admit this
meat to he very good and very savory; several
members Of the commission having eaten it, and
could not detect any sensible difference between
it and beef" In 1871, horse-Hesh was openly
adopted at ochscnhausen (what irony in this
nameD and Wurtcmberg at both of which
places il continues to be publicly sold, under the
surveillance Of the police; and five or six horses
are weekly brought to market Alarge quantity
is also sold at the Lake of Constance. In 1912,
a banquet, at which hundred and fly persons
assisted, inaugurated its public use at Konigsba-
den, near Ssuttgard. In 1876, the police Of Ba-
den authorised its public sale; and Schaff hausen
followed the example. In 1917, Weimar and
Detmold witnessed public banquets of the hip
pophagists, which went off with eclat: in Karls-
bad and its environs the new beef came into gen.
eral use; and at Zittau two hundred horses are
eaten annually. The innovation gained ground
rapidly, and the public sale Of horse-Aesh is pow
general in Austria, Bohemia, SaxOny, Hanover,
Switzerland, and Belgium. In 1858, Berlin
counted no less than five slaughter.houses, where
three hundred and fifty horses were sold. In
Vienna, during the same year, there was riot
to prevent one Of these banquets yet, in 1854,
such progress had been made in public opinion,
that thirty-two thousand pounds weight were
sold in fortnight; and now at least ten thousand
Of the inhabitants are hippophagists.
NJ. Renault, the director Of the graf veterinary
school at Abort, had a horse brought to the es-
tablishmcnt with an incurable paralysis II twas
killed. and three days afterwards, on the LIST Of
December, 1866, eleven guests were invited to
dine of III they were physicians, journalists,
veterinary surgeons, and employees Of the Gov
crnmcnt Side by side were dishes prepared by
the same cook, in precisely similar manner, con-
sisting Of similar parts of the meat from this
horse, and from an OK Of good quality. The
horse-soup was fanked by an ox-soup, the
bOuiHi of horse by 5ouiHi Of beef the Hllet
Of rOast-beef by fillet of roast-horse. The
guests unanimously pronounced in favor Of the
hcrse-soup; the 6Ouitli, on the contrary, they
thought inferior to that Of the OK, though supe-
rior to ordinary beef, decidedly so to the cow
beef The roast fillet again, seemed to them
very decidedly in favor Of the horse. Similar
experiments have been subsequently repeated in
Paris and the provinces, under varying condi-
tions: the guests have sometimes been informed
what they were going to eat sometimes they
have been totally unsuspecting; and sometimes
they have been simply told that they were going
to eat something quite novel, Yet, in every
case, the result has been the same"
A Hanover paper tells the world that the
"silly prejudice against horse flesh (" has
altogether vanished in Denmark and North
ern Germany, and that in the city of Hano-
yer alone, in the course Of Whitsunweek,
about two thousand pounds of horse flesh
were consumed. The number of horses
slaughtered for eating II. that city is between
two and three hundred a-year.l
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