The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-11-02
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Dead Horses and Poultry Raising

7, France horses are used as food FOR
nonltry. The Society of Arts 'fo'rH'al
says:
r has been observed that poultry does
NOT thrive best on pure gram diet' ou,
hat. on the contrary, mixture OF aniniA
carer has great advantages. Acting up
N his hint or starting from it, and pro
.eeding 10 the extremity OF the animal-iood
fbeorv- a person commenced some years
nee az Bellevile an Outskirt OF Paris, the
PRODUCTION OF poultry out Of horse-iiesh.--
There are at present several Of these hippo
ubagous farms, which supply a cOnsidera-
lie portion Of the fowls consumed in the
capital OF France. The system answers
well. provided the creatures are not kept
100 long on an exclusively animal diet, IN
which they become diseased and totally
blind. Some time since. an enterprising
individual introduced great Improvements
into this system Of raising poultry. This
new establishment occupies nearly 30 acres
Of land. and Is capable of accommodating
about 100 600 pullets az time. The pull
lets are divided into parties, according to
their age, aud each party has is yard and
dormitOry, both Of which are kept with the
utmost possible regard for the health and
almost entirely Of hOrse-fesh, supplied from
4 saughter-hOuse adjoining the farm, and
belonging 10 the same proprietor.
This mode VI feeding We are told. Is kept
as secret a. possible. Us the old prejudices
against hOrse-ilesh still prevail; and the
hppOphagi are, therefore, not much bene-
Tilted by this publication Of their principles
Toey have succeeded in inserting the thin
edge OF the wedge bit the wedge IS very
small, and the end is very brittle. The
market value OF a dead hOrse-that great
economical fact upon which The hippOphagi
based so much Arguments thus stated in
the journal wc have just quoted:
skin. weighing from from 30 lbs. 10 10
lbs, l3f 10 III; long hair. from One-1tth OF
q penny 10 half-penny per ID. flesh, from
3jf % 4Jf blood, about q soc. 10 81 SOC. f;
ntestines, If Coo 10 IT, SOC tendOns, H.
-Oc. grease from A. 10 30f hOOfs and
bones, about Il soc. and shoes and nails
about 24c to SOC. total, from sol. 10 1907
cZ s. 10 cf lGs.) The number OF horses
slaughtered averages about 20 a day, and
the affair is so well organized that The sales
pay al expenses leaving the flesh a5 clear
profit. This last product Is boiled in enOr-
nous cOppers, chopped up as if for saus-
ages, and conveyed 10 the farm, after being
seasoned with a small quantity Of salt and
pepper, which prevents pureiaction, and
also contributes 10 the health OF the pOul-
Try"
IL is not only IN the form Of pullets that
he Parisians eat horse but the delicate
Omelette is now largely Favored with that
8 noble animal We are told that the pro-
iuction Of eggs IS more profitable than the
sale @! chickens, as under meat diet the
hens lay ali the year round, and never ex-
hiOit an inclination to sit. During last
winter says the Journal this establish
lnent sent 40. 900 dozens Of eggs 10 market
1t about 3D. per dozen. The hens yield on
IN average about rs. per head per annum
and they lay for four years. at the end OF
which time they are iattened for three weeks
With bruised grain, and sent 10 market
alive The steam Matching apparatus OF
this establishment is on grand scale, fur
nishing employment for fifty or sixty wo-
men. The spare cocks are sent 10 market
and these amounted last autumn TO more
than two dozen in three months"