The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-16
Strengthening Horses.

A correspondent of the New York
| Times writes as follows IN relation to a
horse-slaughtering establishment he WISH
ted in France: Montfaucon, near Paris,
is place seldom visited by the tourists,
and yet it is one of the most interesting.
in a certain way, of any in France. Here
is the greatest horse-slaughtering estab-
lishment in Europe. At Montfaucon
they put dead horse through such a
process as makes every part of it valu-
able. A few days since paid this noted
place visit, and with the assistance of a
courteous foreman learned considerable
of the inner workings of the establish
ment. The company running the con-
Germ have agents in every village, town
and city, whose business it is to buy up
all the old horses turned out as no longer
| fit for work. These are shipped or driven
to Montfaucon, and then the process
commences.
When the animal has been killed it is
cut up, and the choice portions of the
flesh are eaten by the work-people of the
establishment and by those who haunt
the neighborhood, many of whom are
said to be communists of a very desper-
ate character. The rest of the carcass
is sold for the feeding of dogs, cats, pigs,
and poultry, portion being also devoted
| to purposes of manure. The flesh thus
disposed of weighs on an average about
$50 pounds, and sells for from 81 50 to
so. The skin brings from the tanner
about 81 so. The hoofs are disposed of
to manufacturer of sal ammOniac or
similar preparations, or of Prussian blue,
or TO comb or toy maker. The old
shoes and nails are worth six cents. The
hair of the name and tail sells for three
cents. The tendons are disposed of,
either fresh or dried, to glue-makers.
The bones are bought by turner's, cutters,
lawmakers, and the makers of ivory
black and sal ammoniac. OF bones the
average weight is 80 pounds, and these
realized about 60 cents. The intestines
are worth five cents.
The blood is most serviceable. The
chief purchasers are the sugar refiners,
who use 1T In manufacturing sugar. The
blood is also bought up by the fatteners
of poultry, pigeons and turkeys; then,
again, it is sold for manure. When re-
quired for manure it is dried, 20 pounds
of dried blood, which is the average, be-
ing worth As cents.
The fat is in demand for making soap,
and, when very fine, for ''bear's grease"
also for the grease applied to harness and
to shoe-leather. This fat, when consumed
IN lamps, gives out more heat than oil,
and Is, therefore, preferred by makers of
glass toys, and by enamelers and polishers
One horse has been known to yield 60
pounds of fat, but this was an extreme
case. The fat of a horse in fair condition |
is II pounds, but so many lean and sorry |
jades are taken in, that pounds may be |
taken as the average, and a value of 10 |
cents per pound.
Nor does the list end here Sometimes
there is considerable putrid flesh about
dead animals, and how to use this matter
bothered the French scientists for some
time Finally the problem was solved,
and now the putrid flesh is made to team
with life, and to produce food for other
living creatures. A pile of pieces of flesh,
several inches in height, LAYER upon LAYER
IS arranged, after which it is covered over
lightly with hayor straw. In few hours,
thousands upon thousands of flies deposit
their eggs in this attractive matter. and
thus maggOts are bred. These are fed to
pheasants, and in smaller degree to do
nestle fowls. They are also used to fat
en sardines. These maggots give, or are
to give, game flavor to poul-
ry, and very high flavor to phe2sants.
Since | heard the foreman's story, |
rave made numerous inquiries to learn
L II was true one. Thus far have
net with few who believe it, and vet |
10 not see why monsieur, the foreman,
should have lied about "a little thing
Ike that The maggOts thus produced. |
% | was further informed, are worth 36
,ents. "What is the average amount
called on a dead horse?' was NV next
question: "From 90 to so francs" was
lis immediate answer