The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-29

Per Reprssen,i"g IN
Fray Bentos $500 35 pounds II 1850.
Australian. ....... 400 35 pounds IL 1880,
La Plata......... $50 95 pounds 1Oc.
Texas. ............. 800 35 pounds SIC.
Tourtelot's.. GOO 20 pounds soc.
The American (Texan) Liebig extract, it
will be observed, at three dollars pound, re-
presenting 50 pounds of muscle and Is of
market beef reduces soup-stock to the equi-
valent of buying market beef at six and two
third cents. The La Plata reduces the same
to rather less than eight cents pound, and
the Australian and Fray Bentos to rather less
than nine cents; while crude soup-beef, with
bones and fat, cannot be bought in the New
York market at less than eighteen. The
solid extracts mentioned in the table obvi-
ously cannot compete with market beef, which
debars them from general popularity.
Those limitations, aside from exclusion of
fat and gelatine, must be observed in order
to fulfill the conditions of the Liebig inven-
ton. The amount of water must not exceed
81 per cent of the whole product, but may
fuctuate from 16 to 81; the ash may vary
from Is to % per cent; and from so to go
per cent. must be soluble in alcohol of 80.
The four Liebig extracts in the market pre-
sent little variation in quantitative analysis.
The average table is
Water. Is to 20 per cent
Ash. 10 to 21 per cent
Salts. to per cent
Alcohonc extract. .....5I TO SO per cent
The qualitative analysis of condensed beef
is less understood, and perhaps the most
powerful agent remains to be developed. 70
appreciate the economical value of this idea,
now on the verge of working itself out in q
dietetieal revolution, it must be considered
that it practically nullifes the vast cost of
transportation from remote points, and brings
the vast and hitherto waste herds of the
world to assist in the alimentation of its
population-centres,a and that the idea is just
as applicable to milk, eggs, and vegetables as
it is to meat.
The present mission of condensed food,
aside from its convenience in a great city
where room for storage is expensive, and the
ease with which it can be prepared, trans
ported and manipulated generally, is to be
sought in the utilization of alimentary pro-
ducts so far from the market as to be practi-
cally non -transportable thither. Whether the
day may not come when the foul and filthy
meat-markets and corner groceries of New
York will be wholly supers eded, is a specula-
tive question: but the equilibrium between
production and consumption is undergoing a
process of progressive disturbance year by
year that annually increases the cost of all
alimentary products The sewers of New
| York, for instance, permit 4, ZOO, 600 loads of
manurial product to drift seaward yearly this
| t,OOo,Ouo ioduS representing lue Clty b dD-
sorption of the fertility OF the soil within the
limits where it is remunerative to transport
the products of that fertility city-ward and
10y some means this exhaustion must be cor
rectsd or prices will eliminate in oppressive
ness.
The condensed principle offers a present
remedy, and embodies in itself the elements
of great dietical revolution which, within
twenty years, will subvert the whole present
philosophy of alimentation as interpreted by
our butchers. AS adaptation of physique to
habitat is law of organization, radical ply
sical and physiological notifications will
mark the coming mana larger brain, q
larger vital organism, less abdomen and
glandular system, as well as rather less mus
cular system, and greater delicacy of contour
conjoined to the prevalence of the 6L0ndl
complexion, naturally resulting. Then, too
it will be necessary to frame a new theory OF
physical beauty united to the modified coming
humanity of the coming century; with which
deduction l leave the subject of speculative
anatomy to the author of the "Resultant Mar
! of America"