Daily Republican., 1881-07-21
THE MEAT QUESTION.
What Well.knOwn Butcher has
to Say on the subject Of Dressed
Meat.

to say on the Subject of Dressed
Meat.
NEssRS. EDITORS AS a great deal
has been said about al essal meat being
sold in the markets, l will give you a
true version OF the beef now being sold
under my special notice. In the first
place nearly all the supply of cattle sold
in WILMINGTON comes from two sources,
namely The first from the fine pasture
lands of Ches ter and Lancaster counties,
and are brought fresh from these pas
lures every week by Mr.. Joseph II,
Gould, and by him sold to the retail
butchers, aggregating about fifty OF
sixty head a week. Now Mr.. Joseph
II. Gould is well known in Will
mington, as d gentleman of veracity,
honor and responsibility, and is far
from stooplng 81 low as to sell diseased
cattle to his fellow butchers. Mr.
Gould has been in the butchering busl-
ness, and has been dealing in cattle for
the last twenty-five years, and ms YER
acity as a gentleman cannot be disputed.
In the second place the chief aDd largest
supply comes weekly from the beautiful
rich and abundant pasture lands OF Nir-
pinia. kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Mis-
souria and Indiana. From these States
which raise and fatten the best cattle
on the American continent, they are
shipped over the Baltimore Il Ohio rail
road and it's branches with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad to the Balti-
more markets, weekly, and these are
purchased amidst the great competition
of buyers for the Phiadel phia and New
York markets by the undersigned, who
has been shipping these cattle to Will
mington for the last twelve years very
successfully, both to TIE retail butchers
of this city and copSumers. These
are the cattle that correspondent
charges the butchers with selling dis
eased meat from and | would say fur
ther, that the live stock trade in the
Baltimore MAI ket, of which cattle are the
major part, has become so great that it
requires larger facilities for the sale OF
them, and upon this head the Baltimore
g. Ohio Railroad Company, with the
drovers, have Just completed new aud
very extensive yards for the sale of
stock, as also has the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad just completed new
and extensive yards for the sale of stock
on their line OF road out West Balti
more street and Calverton road, with
capacity Of holding ten thousand cattle
alone at this one yard, with the Balti-
more 4 Ohio yards much larger, max
ing the prospects of the Baltimore cat
tie markets second to none in the nited
States. | have now given true and
correct statement OF the cattle that are
sold to the butchers of Wilmington for
the retail trade, and have nothing fur
ther to say, and will not answer any
controversy. as this is intended for
the benefit of the citizens alone that
they may allay all fear of buying dis.
eased meat from butchers. tina, buy
their cattle from either of these sources.
Unnecessary can produce certificate
from the Governor Of the Stale of Mary
land that no diseased cattle is allowed
to be sold in the Baltimore market, as
this market is entirely under his con
troll, and he appoints weigh-master and
all employees AZ the cattle yards. A
special policeman patrols the yards on
the days that cattle are sold, and sees
that all rules and regulations are car.
ried out to the letter. There are also
bills posted up in several of the most
conspicuous places around the cattle
yards reading thus: Ten dollars head
fine for anyone bringing or offering for
sale any diseased cattle at these yards
This fine will be risidly inforced.
(SignedD,
5. j. ROBINSON, Weigh
master, State of Mary
land, Live Stock Cattle
Scales, at Baltimore,
Md
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES SAWDoN, jR.