The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-01-19
WHOLE NO. lO7.
Market for tho Sale OF Horse Flcsl
in Paris.

Making the horse contribute 10 the nourishnent
Of the human race Is not altogether new. Tn.
ancient Germans and Scandinavans had a marx. .
ed liking for horse-nesh The nomade tribes Of
Northern Asia make horse-lesh their favoritc
food. !, has long been authorized and publicly
sold in Copenhagen.
". lsidoro ST. ll;!airc was the frs, in France
10 contend that, while animal food Is absolu,el,
necessary 10 the proper nourishncn, Of the hu.
man race millions Of frcnchman cat no animal
food, aud every year millions Of pounds OF excel
lent meat are wasted. He knows how the cau.,.
he advocates leads itself to ridculc-he know
how difficult II has always been to gc, rid or .
prejudice-he knows the fate OF innovaior.. hn,
though aFrenchman, he bTavcd riiiculr. Lrou.,l,,
heavy battery Of facts to destroy what be deem,
ed prejudice, and Is already experiencing some
Of the triumph which follows hard-won vic,o-
~.
In lsil, hosre-aesh was adopted at Ochsenhau-
sen and wurienburg, where it Is now pubncl.
sold, under the surveillance OF the police. Every
week five or six horses are brongh, to market.
Atthe Lake ofConsiAnce u large quantity nf
this nea, is also sold. In isI2 a Lannuct Of ON.
hundred and fifty persons inaugura,e,l IL, putl..
use at the Conigsbaden, near S,uiigard ln 3.
the police Of Baden authorized iis public sal,
and Shafthausen followed in the same wear. lp
lsi1 a, De,mold aud weimar, public hor.e.iicsli
banque,s were held with grca, ,cir,-in Kafl.s.,d
lBohetnial and lis ensirons. the new beet ct,s..
into general use-and y, Zitau tuo huudt,l
horses are eaten annually. At Ling. after ono
OF these banqusis, the police permitted the sa!,
Of horse-hesh, which il now general in Au.'r.a.
Bohemia, Saxony, Hanover, Switzerland and
Belgium.
The innovation made rapid converts, Ia l.i.
Berlin had no less than five abgno,r,. where over
one hundred and hny h.r r.cs were killed naI
sold
AtVienna in 1858 there was 70, TO prc,.n,
one OF thes" banque,s but in lsji ..ch ,.fusr,,.
had been made that ihir,y.iwo thousand rounl
weight were sold in fifteen DAYS. aud AZ lra,, .u-
ooo of the inhabitants hahi,uall, eat hor.e-.c.h
And now Partisan banqueis u hog.e.i!r.. .i,.
common
These facts are, "a, all ereuj,. cufio... Th.na
of the prejudicss to be overcome. and ,.ini hos.
unreasonable is the stomach
iouhs hotsct are Too valuable To- iU b!utrit g..
the shambles, unless killed by acc.l,n,. E..,
WORKOUT hacks, Of which two hundred a,!! ru,
OF three hundred die or are killed weekly it. :.
large city, old horses used up are capan., w.
ate assured, Of furnishing good mat.
An old horse which had done duty ;or ;wcl,,.
FIVE wears was the substance ola earned .A.,f...
omc feast at Paris
In the horse We have an animal which is mus.
cleaner IN It's habits than the hog hesbivotn..
like the oN or sheep. whose flesh Is f,A ia u.,f,.-
gen and as ple'san, 10 the taste as ,AA; q. ..i,.
Of the aoove-nAuied animals WlA, Prevent.
hoFse-iiesh from being fognd on oag ,4a.
Nothing oui aPopaiaE prejudice. which i......
Investigations in Paris show is caiif,'y n.u....
any foundation whatever
high, thousand horses die, its SAL ia N.n
York annually, VI about twenty-five l,s Jay.
great eNaggerAion, no doubt but instead VI
fetching seventeen or eighteen dollar. 90 Pros
The carcass Tor grease, and to feed ihc hogs oa =.
make pork for export the prices wii be great,
Enhanced for meat TOT home consumption
The French Government appointed commi,i,,.
II scientific men, and on their assurance ;la'
lofse-iiesh was healthy and nu,ricious allowed
lie sale under certain conditions. uue ~ il,..,
a as complete publicity, and ,l,.f uo:,d,ail.t.
% The public BY signs that the uca, ", ho;-
iesh. Another Was that no other ;ic.A-u.e4, -
10 h. sold a, the same place