Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

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| was offered two years ago for case OF
| trichinae caused by American meat. ano
| that this had not yet been claimed. ~
spoke well of our lard and said that all sus-
| pcions against 1t were based upon preJudlce
| or gross ignorance. e
Germans as Sausage Eaters.
I had talk with the German agent OF
our biggest packing house trust in one of
the cities of the Rhine as to the importation
of American meats. Said he:
1.-The people here want American food
stuffs, but the agrarians crowd them out
Their talk about tariff has raised the
prices of meat, and also their success IN
| excluding the American sausage.
"Wc Germans are sausage eaters. we
want our meat chewed. There is no waste
| in sausage, and cheap sausage means much
| to the poor. Before American sausages were
| excluded you could buy good article for
| 151a cents a pound The same thing now
| sells for 81 cents pound, and other KINDS
| of meat are proportionately high. We USED
| to have a great trade in American liver's,
| but the agragian inspectors are keeping them
out, and they exclude all American fresh
| meats by delaying the examination of the
| meat until it spois. The result is we dare
not ship it. There is great deal of fuss
| now about the of boracic acid pre-
sentative, and altogether everything is done
to keep our meats out of the markets"
At the Berlin Cattle Yards.
Nearly ali the Clues VI SeTHdHy OWiA
their own markets. They have their own
cattle yards and their own slaughter
| houses, the animals being killed under the
| eyes of inspectors. l went out the other
| day to see the cattle markets of Berlin.
/ They are situated on the edge of the city
and are easily reached by the Ringbahn.
| They cover many acres and have cost
about four million dollars.
During my visit the yards were filled
| about 5000 sheep in one set of stalls, and l
| was told that 10000 sheep are brought
in every day. Accommodations are pro-
vided in one hall for 1900 cattle, and there
| are arrangements so that other thousands
| can be handled at the same time.
The cattle were roaring like bulls of
| Bashan when l entered the hall; across the
way the sheep were baaing and there was
| such bleating of calves that it fairly din
| ned my ears.
| 1 wish 1 could show you the hogs. There
were thousands of them and the cleanest,
prettiest hogs l have ever seen. Each
porker had evidently been scrubbed before
| he had been brought in. His bristles shone
| like frosted silver and his skin was rosy
| as the cheek of a baby. The drovers in
| long white coats were moving the pigs
| from one part of the yard to the other,
| and as they did SO the sun poked his rays
| through the silver bristles and made them
| look like painted hogs. Each animal was
| marked with a stamp showing that the in
| SpeclOr ndU looked IL over ana passed upon
| 1t for killing, and later / saw that
| every piece of meat was likewise stamped.
! There are altogether about 400 inspectors
| employed, of whom 105 are women micro
scopists. The inspectors going over
| the cattle while l was in the beef hall. The
| examination was thorough, although many
| of the animals were fierce. The bulls were
| lead through the yard with their eyes
| blindfolded.
| Horse Meat in Europe
Leaving these halls I visited some of the
| slaughter houses, where horses are killed
| for food, and a;sc the shops where the
| meat is sold Not only in Berlin, but in
almost all the great cities of Europe horse
| meat is eaten by the lower classes. There
| are great slaughter houses in Paris which
| kill thousands of horses every year In
| Vienna more than $4,000 horses and num-
| Der of dOnkays annually are killed and
| Berlin eats horse meat by the thousands
| of pounds every day. Such horses are in
| Spected both before and after killing, and
| every piece of meat must be stamped as
| healthful by the inspectors.
| Have you ever seen a piece of horse flesh?
1t Is redder than beef and looks for all the
| world like venison and tastes not unlike Il.
| There are 200 butcher shops in Paris which
sell nothing else l saw it sold side by
| side with beef in the butcher shops in
Switzerland and have no difficulty in find
| ing horse meat chops here. In Berlin the
| meat is advertised as horse meat, and
| there is no chance of having horse steak
passed off upon you as venison beef.
| In Horse Meat Shop.
One of the shops which l visited in the
| poorer quarters of Berlin had steaks roasts
| and soup bones nicely dressed and ready
| for sale. The meat was black where it had
! been exposed to the air, but red when fresh
| cut.
Upon the walls hung horses sides half
| cut up, and on hooks from the ceiling hung
| horses hams, smoked and dried. On one
| wall were long strings of little sausages
! black as ink, speckled with bits of white
| fat. Each string weighed pound and
| the bare-armed butcher behind the counter
told me that it was made of ground horse