Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-21
A VALUABLE INVENTION.
The Preservation of Meats by a
New aud Singular Process.

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New aud Singular Process.
Mr.. J. A. Jones of Eureka hands us a
copy of the London Stock Keeper and
Financier of a recent date, in which is de-
scribed a new process for preserving meats,
invented by his brother, Richard Jones, a
physician, who resides at Berkeley, Glou-
cestershire, England. The patent was OBJ
tanned in the United States by ]. A.
Jones, who, for paying the expense of get
ting it out, holds a one-third interest in it.
The method adopted is to first render the
animal insensible by o blow from a mallet
and then inject by simple gravitation from
a tank a solution of bracic ascid into the
jugular vein while the mammal is in arti-
culo morris. The antiseptic fluid thus in
jected enters the heart and from thence is
pumped throughout the whole system.
On Friday last, says the Stock Keeper
and Financier, a number OF gentlemen
were invited to the Cannon Street Hotel
to partake Of a lunch prepared from the
flesh Of one Of the animals slaughtered at
the Messrs. Sheathers veterinary estab-
lishment. Before sitting down visitors
were invited to inspect carcasses preserved
by the process, one of the sheep having
been killed on the date mentioned, which
had been preserved for thirty-nine days,
and another that had been similarly treat
ed tifty-four days previous to our visit on
Friday. The flesh in both cases was of q
normal color, firm and free from any signs
Of prolonged keeping. Its appearance was
bright and good, as though it had been
hung but a few days, instead of several
weeks, and in marked contrast with some
American killed mutton which was placed
alongside.
The operation by which the antiseptic
fluid is injected throughout the animals
frame is satisfactory on humanitarian
principles. Thu time required to perform
it is from two to three, or four minutes;
and the animal, so far as can be discerned
by any scientific knowledge, is insensible
during the injection of the fluid. The
process is not less humane than that Or
dinarily practiced by butchers.
The novelty of the process consists in
the preservative fluid being made to flow
into the animals system while it is still
alive. AS to the objections made to the
use of boracic acid, from a sanitary point
of view, they are imaginary only. The
acid is tasteless, and the best authority
asserts that it is, also, harmless and even
beneficial to the health, when taken in
small quantities, being an excellent remedy
itself for diseases of the blood. 1t cannot
be injurious unless taken in much larger
quantities than are allowed to remain in
the body by Jones' patent.
Jones of Eureka has tried the invention
extensively in Nevada, and has found it
always successful and valuable. In Can
delaria, last Summer, he made the ex-
pertinent among the butchers and pre-
served carcasses for weeks, when the meat
obtained by the ordinary method of
slaughter would become tainted in twenty
four hours. He has a calf hung up now
in his cabin, near his stove, which has
been suspended there for the last five
months, the flesh of which is as sound
and sweet and of the same natural color
as it was the day after the slaughter. This
animal has been preserved by the patent
plan.
Mr.. Jones has another method of pre-
serving flesh with boracic acid, which he
expects to utilize in preserving the bodies
of Cinnamon, at $50 apiece, for shipment
to the Orient. He does not propose to
kill them with q mallet, in order to pre-
serve them for shipment. He proposes
only to take them after they are dead and
prepare them for transportation, one or
two in a large barrel. He thinks he may
pack in three celestials if they are small.