Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-10
SELL HORSE MEAT.
North Dakota to Have a Plant for
the Slaughter Of Horses
for Food.
Medora Meat and Provision Company
Want to Sell Horse Meat in
New York.
Proposed to Utilize the Former Mar
quis de Mores Beef Slaughter
ing Plant.
For Canning Horse Meat.

For Canning Horse Meat.
North Dakota, according to recent re-
ports is to have a packing establishment
for the sl%aughtering, shipping and pre-.
serving of horse meat. It is understood
that eastern capitalists, including some
foreign spectators, have made arrange
ments for the leasing of the slaughtering
and packi e house plant of the former
Marquis de Mores company at Medora,
for the purpose of killing and shipping
horses as food products. The plant is an
extensive one and could be fitted up for
the purpose without great expense and
has a capacity of several hundred ami
mails a day. 1t is the idea of the com
pany to kill meat for eastern and Europ-
can consumption. The following item
from the New York Herald is of interest
in this connection:
President Murphy of the health board
received a letter yesterday from Henry
Boss, general manager of the Medora,
IN. d. Meat and Provision company. In
the letter Mr.. Bosse asks permission to
sell horse meat in this city and for that
purpose to erect stores and booths
throughout the city. He says in part
"MY DEAR SIR:-We, the undersigned,
the Medora Dressed Meat and Provision
company of Medora, N. d., Incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey, wish to
lay before your honorable board an ap-
plication for the sale of dressed horse
meat in the city of Greater New York.
what we propose is this:-To slaugh-
ter only such grade of horses as would
be best adapted to the retail trade, and
only such horses as have never had a
harness on, being as we'll fed as our
Montana beef, which has a world wide
reputation. The animals are all young
stock, from M to five years old, and
their physical condition will be superior
to beef.
APPROVED BY GOVERNMENT.
1.-THE said stock was slaughtered under
the supervision of the United States
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Animal Industry, by act of congress-, ap:
proved July l, 1898, and the fact of their
physical condition properly attended by
said department; the meat to be sold
only as horse meat, and the fact to be
borne out by our advertising matter.
Our store will he kept s%crupulously
clean.
1.-The location of the store is to be reg.
ulated by the neighborhood where can
be found the Italian, German, French
and Bohemian element. These people
are large of horse meat in
their native lands and it therefore is tc
be seen that it would sell more
freely among them.
"In Belgium horse meat is the nation.
al dish. During the year 1897, Paris
used 1896 horses, or 12,Ol4 tons Of
horse meat, for human food, ano
throughout Germany it is largely con
sumcd, as in Italy. Horse meat is the
most nourishing of all meat, containing
twenty-five per cen less water than beef
and the taste is hardly distinguishablt
from beef.
"As to the cleanliness Of a horse, it is
useless to enter into that; he is moro
particular than human beings. We arc
constantly eating adulterated foods. II
Il horses food ~were>dosed as our modern
condiments arc, you will soon find the
horse starving to death. His construc.
ton except in his joints is identical with
that of the steer. He is less susceptible
to disease than a steer, pig or sheep
IrichinCSis is unknown among horses
Can one point in the United States be
mentioned where a quarantine exists
against horses? We think not. Cattle!
yes, in every state. This speaks well fol
the general health Of the horse.
CHEAPER THAN EEEE.
1.-The discrepancy in price between a
steer and a good carcass of a horse is
very large. The best cuts, such as sir.
loin, porterhouse and round steaks, can
be sold at live cents a pound and the
soup pieces at two and a half cents PEI
pound.
"The meat will be shipped from NORTH
Dakota in il refrigerator car just as oul
dressed beef is"
There is no ordinance preventing the
sale of horse meat, but Section It's of the
Sanitary Code prohibits the slaughter Of
horses for food in the city.
Repeated attempts have been made tC
Introduce horse meat inthis city and the
New York board of health first had its
attention called to. an effort to introduce
it by the closing of a sausage factory on
Franks Creek, near Newark, N. j., in
December 1897.
A short time after this the American
Horse Meat Company obtained a license
from the Kearney IN. ~ authorities and
began to slaughter horses for exporta.
tation to. Europs. A United States meat
inspector was stationed at the slaughter
house and a bond of $1,000 was required
for forfeiture in case the meat was sold
in this country.
On December 20 of last year a big
consignment of horse meat, which had
been shipped from Sidney Centre, Della.
ware county, N. Y, to w. r. Dixon &
Son, commission merchants in Duane
street, was seized by the board of health
and destroyed as ofal.
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