The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

should be allowed 10 get cole anu vi 50,
STEPPED for half an hour before packing,
and gallon of the solution poured into the
cask. We can vouch for the lime having no
taste, as might be expected; and Ut. Medlock
alder q quarter of grain Of bisulphite Of lime
couId be eaten In o whole leg OF mutton. Even
In this country, during such summer as the
past one, everybody knows the difhculty there
was in keeping the meat sweet for couple OF
DAYS together, and we may therefore consider
this process boon on small scale of application
ike this; bat when, SO Messrs. Medlock and
Bailey inform Us, provisions in bulk have been
brought to England from Australia IN the highest
state of juiclness and preservation after voyage
OF three months In the hottest weather, and when
meat has been sent from England to Brazil and
back again to these shores with the same results,
the inventors have fair reason for considering
the solution is only IS. Sd. gallon. the purchs-
sers cannot complain Of the expense Of prsserv-
ing their food. Dst
of another we have the subjoined account
from the London Scotsman:
very interesting meeting was lately held at
the Masonic Rooms, No. IA Bedford Row, when
number of scientific gentlemen assembled in
order to test an invention just patented by DR..
Kernot, of Cowes, for the preservation Of meats,
etc. The test assumed very practical shape,
consisting as il did the partaking Of luncheon,
all the materials of which had been treated ac-
cording to DR.. kernots process. Fowls and legs
of mutton which had been preserved for eighteen
months. tasted as fresh as II they had been hang
ing in the lsrder but couple OF days, and specl-
mems of the preserved meat in raw state were
exhibited, which had none of the repulsive ap-
pearance TO which the existing prejudice to most
preserved meats is mainly Attributable: me
plicity. A powder Ia perfectly innocuous
substance, we are informed) Is added
to proportion OF pure water. 10
the LIQUID the meat Is merely dipped,
If the design be only to preserve it for short Pc
uous, and wnen required for use, whether, as
stated, at the end of one year or OF twenty, II
comes out a. fresh ~ when 1t was put IN. IL was
announced at the meeting that DR.. Kernot has
parted with his patent to company which Is in
course of formation, the chief basis OF whose op.
erations ia to be the introduction to home consum
ers of the quantities of butcher meat now wasted
In various parts of the globe. The absence OF any
regularity In the external appearance OF the
:. Kernotisedv meat, In combination with its con-
diton of absolute pristine freshness. are features
which would seem to bespeak for the scheme
favorable career. There are other uses even more
closely touching the interests OF all housewives,
and many others besides, to which the invention
can, to all appearance, be put. When there hap
pens to be gut in the larder, the use OF this pre-
sentative will dispel ell anxiety; and II ought en-
trey to obviate those occasional ruinous sacrifices
In the dead markets, consequent on combination
ton of the atmosphere.
And the third is the process employed by
the beef-packing company now operating in
Southern Texas. Its peculiar feature, as we
have been informed, is the immersion of the
beef, cut into sections suitable for steaks, In
carbonic acid gas-.the same gas which effer-
yesces in the soda-water sold as beverage in
Al. "a e cLo1 fx,o inf
which this gas is injected, by simple machin-
cry, to the exclusion of the atmospheric air.
The gas is considered harmless. Yet, even
if it were noxious, the advocates of this
process argue that its use in this way is neces-
sarily innocent from the fact that il does not
become a constituent, or affect the quality and
flavor, of the preserved meats, but only en-
cases them with an impregnable armor
against chemical enemies eager to commence
the work of decomposition. How greatly the
established success and extended use of this,
or of any other method aiming at the same
object, would go towards furnishing the mil
lions in the dense centers of Europe and
America with the blessing of abundant, cheap
and wholesome fresh meat, may be judged
when it is remembered that owing to the
absence of some invention of this nature,
the carcasses of hundreds of thousands
of cattle are suffered to decay annually
on the pampas of South America,
the prairies of Texas, and the plains of Aus
tralia, giving to commerce nothing but their
hides, and horns, and tallow, all inedible
substances. While this immense surplus of
meat is perishing in some parts of the world,
millions of human beings are on the brink of
starvation in others. Nature has always pro-
duced, of the various elements of subsistence,
an excess over the immediate wants of men.
1t remains for science, cooperating with
commerce, to draw upon this excess SO that
the masses in every civilized country may be
fed in q manner to promote the highest de-
velopment of their physical organizations.
In SO far as they should be better off in this
particular, they would be better off in every
other particular. For the conditions of the
various departments of ehuman well-being
never conflict They always harmonic and
reciprocally assist.
The House, as was anticipated, has, by o