The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-01

horse are heated ana hardened BY work
This Is arrant nonsense oxen, bulls aud
COWS. whose flesh Is eaten with impupiiy.
are certainly nor raised with q speciai view
10 their eventual slaughter. And, further
more. which Is q point worth considering Ia
large towns particularly, horse meat Is far
less expensive than beef selling often at
onethlrd the price 70 ina, even the poor
est may ahord this healthy. succulent and
foriifviug form ~ food.
Paris. the Inferno of horses, as Il has
appropriately been termed furnishes US
VITA abundant material. some horses have
been injured IN accidents. and consequently
have TO I've killed; others have been worn
out hv hard work aud must be reticd
horse Is generally young. well fed aud IN
thoroughly COod condition. lhry are
brought 10 the horse murkct, and there our
BUYERS pick out the best FOR our use. Race
horses We do not often have to deal with:
they are rare Ia the market. even where
they have broken lex or met with some
such accident, for their flesh is dry, nerN.
Gus and hard Paris cab aud bus horses
are the best for our purpose. After buy
Ing. we divide them Into two classes The
old hack which is too tough for the most
Is turned Into SauSagc~ which have a rich
flavor highly esteemed by epcureS The
fat young horses are cut up and sent ont
to our butchers. Al the present moment
there are over SEQ OF these butchers IN
Paris for the taste for horse Hesh has in,
creased amazingly IN late years
SUBSTITUTE FOR LoBSrCRs.
For our choice animals we pay usually
from SIS to $50 per head But after the
harvest season the prices generally fail
Horses which will not be tit for service an.
other year and which are consequently not
worth their keep through he winter are
then put up at rldlculously low prices aud
one can buy for 81 or 81 horses worth real
ly so or So,
'"t'ntU now we have Killed ouy horses In
the general slaughter houses. but we have
lyst erected spacious quarters OF our own
where only eQuines VIII he accepted. We
Kill 10y masking the eyes ana thcu Stlkius
a blow with maui II IS SooU over. with
little suffering and the beasts that come
tu f- s,.r t.rnptaliy 80 coutented with thor
lot that they do not attempt 20 resist as
the, are holng led M.
I'VE may say thai oven after death the
nohlest conquest ol man continues bis ca-
rcer Of usefulness.
Speaking of gHsWonomicSl subjects 'hcrc
Is another article Of food mur generally
appointing to the unframed pHatc than
horse 0csh, and growing proportlouat'lN
scarcer Ia Francc n, horse drSl Us coming
iutp more widespread use. French cpicuyeS
are distressed beyond measure. for he M
tive lobster supply rs beginning to f1ll,
ami there rs rong prejudice against tho
timed article. Fishers on the Breton coast
whore HOLSTERS are richest in France. say
that thoy can no longer meet hr Hy
rustomcd demand from Paris alone and
scientists declare that unless mo breed rs
given the opportunity to rcruporate there
viii soon not hc % single lobster left on
thc COASTS Of France. with the snail sup
PLY practically exhausted frogs dwindliug
20 alarmnElv low numbers ana now lobster ,
gradually disappearing, It IS perhaps as
well TINT t'r.uch cpicurcS should st,It have
Tor their consolation the prosprr0 of ca lug
horse flesh
Francis Warrington Dawson.
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