Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-14
HORSE MEAT AS FOOD
We Shall Learn to Like Ii,
Says German Packer.
oHEAPNEss BRINGS BIG SALES,

Intends to Introduce the Food In
the United states.
That the American people can be ed
ucated up 10 accepting horse meat as
an article Of regular diet is the belief
Of Max Waldenburger, who arrived al
New Yoak recently from Frankfort
Germany. -crr W%aldenburger admits
that there is a prejudice here against
the eating Of horseaesh, but he thinks
that time will overcome 1t, says Tie
New York Commercial Advertiser
Herr WaldenbGrger represents a horse
meat cannery Of Frankfort, and bis
objective point is Chicago, where, If
all goes wei, he purposes to establish
a horse meat factory. He said.
"We shall start, Of course. only in o
small way at first as an experiment,
but no amount Of money win be spared
TO make a substantial success Of the
business. Your country is a big one
and you Americans are perhaps the
greatest beef eaters ia the world. Why
not make YOU become a nation of horse
meat eaters too? In Germany horse
meat can now be purchased in nearly
every large butchers shop in the big
cities throughout the country, the poor
being the chief consumers of it, be-
cause 1t Is very much cheaper than bull
lock beef and equally strengthening.
a tenderloin horsesteak, for instance,
costs only T cents. That Is 6 cents less,
or almost half the price, that would be
charged for a bullock steak Of the same
cut.
"Since our factory was established
ten years ago in Germany thousands of
the poor have come TO prefer horse
meat to any other. In order to destroy
old prejudices against the meat we
at first distributed it freely among the
poor, both in the cities and country
towns. The meat is very tender, and
the rich are also fast becoming very
partial to it. With the exception of
Dur own people, the Parisians are our
best customers. 1t has been calculated
that nearly $4,000 people eat horse
meat In Paris every day and through
out my country about 100000. Great
quantities of the meat are also sent to
China and Japan. In China especially
tbe meat Is becoming very popular,
the Chinese being adopts at chopping
the meat up into savory dishes. Thou
sands of pounds of horse meat are also
purchased by the German government
for the army and navy. The emperor
himself long ago openly declared him
self in favor of horse meat. He be-
Iieves that the soldiers especially should
make themselves accustomed to eating
1t while in barracks, so that they will
have no prejudice against it if they
should in time of war find themselves
In a position where 1t would be found
necessary to kill horses for food. The
meat, fresh or preserved, is a little
salter and darker in color than the bull
lock meat, but the sadness is so slight
that one has to use some salt In eating
It. There is, too, very little fat in
horse meat.
About Eve, | should say, out of ev-
cry dozen horses slaughtered at our
factory are made into sausage. The
sausages are highly favored, and it
would take an expert to tell the differ
ence between them and the best pork
sausages. The sausages for eXporta-
ton are cooked FIRST and then packed in
tins containing a preserving oil. Last
year we received an order for 10000
eases, each case carrying twenty-four
tins, from an American tlrm-no, /
will not mention the name. The firm,
l will say, however, is one of the lar
gest meat packers in this country.
THE horses killed for this meat are
especially fatteued on bunch grass, and
no animal above the age of eight years
or suffering from disease is used. We
buy most of our horses from the farm
ing districts throughout Germany at
500 a head. y great many Of them
are ponies, and quite a large number
of Indian ponies or cayuses are import
ed from the ranges in Washington and
Oregon in this country at $3.50 a head,
but the freight expenses bring them up
to about the same price as the ones we
buy mt home. We prefer these range
horses because their flesh is more com
pact and has the flavor of the prairie.
"Not "A single portion Of the animal
is lost, Only the hams ana the tender
TOMS, which are regarded as the hest
meat, are corucd, except what is to be
sold on the block. The hams and ten
darloins are put i'm barrels and branded
Horse Nes- and shipped to their des-
'iHation. Tie tails and names are ship
I'D oil 10 mattress factories. All that