The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-02
Thoroughly Modern Refrigerating
Plant and Other Improvements
Have Been Installed
TWO HONOLULU BUTCHERS
WILL HANDLE MEAT HERE
Doctor Raymond Tells Why He
Broke Away From Graziers
To Operate Independently

Cattle slaughtered at the fatteninp
pen and delivered to the consumer in
the finest condition possible is the aim
or the Raymond Ranch in Maui, Of
which DR.. J. II. Raymond is the head.
lie sald yesterday that he had Just
completed the installation of u thor.
oughly modern refrigernting plant in
keoneolo, the shipping point of the
ranch in Maui, which, with other i'm.
ProVcments on the ranch for the
Strengthening and handling Of the beef
cattle, had cost in the neighborhOod Of
$50, 900.
Heretofore the Raymond beef has
been shipped to the Hawaii Meat Com.
Pany to be distributed to the retailers,
but this arrangement is no longer in ex-
istance and hereafter two local butch
ers will purchase direct. C. O. Yee
HOP and c. z. Yet in future will handle
the product of the Raymond ranch.
The territorial market also will have
good deal Of the meat to distribute
Mt the market price and there is a DOS.
sibility that il proper storage arrange.
ments can be made at the market DOR.
lions less than q carcass will be sold
there.
Beef Of Excellent Quality
Doctor Raymond, who has made a
thorough study of the work Of refrig.
Grating beef, has come to the conelus-
ION that the cattle slaughtered at or
near their usual habitat are in much
better condition than cattle brought
here from the other islands on the hOof.
At best the manner of handling the
beef cattle brought to Honolulu for
consumption is crude in every way.
This is because of the lack of facilities
and the long time cattle are aboard
ship in nervous state. Cattle worry
great deal in their Transporting on
board ship and lose weight quickly,
says the doctor.
BY the system put into operation by
Doctor Raymond, the cattle are slaught-
cred near their pasture when they are
in normal condition. In this shape they
are driven to the pen, where they are
shot. The normal temperature of cat
tie IS about one hundred degrees. Cat.
tie slaughtered at the Raymond ranch
are found by actual test to be from six
to ten degrees cooler after death than
those killed here, which have had to
endure the hard trip and handling they
go through between their pastures and
the Strengthening pens.
Carcasses Are Not Frozen
The cattle slaughtered at Kconcoio,
when put in the refrigerating plant.
are not frozen but just chilled. The
handling of the carcasses is done in the
modern manner and great success has
been attained in the treatment Of the
beef for food under tho new system
installed.
When asked his reasons for making
change in the manner of dispOsing of
his cattle, Doctor Raymond said that he
was looking out for his own best in
tereSts. He had been Disseminated
against, he said, in the matter of pricea
received for his beef, in the first place.
while has product was of Just as god
quality as that of the others who sup.
piled the market. He was not allowed
~ join the hui of graZiers who formed
the corporation and sold their product
at twelve cents, Wholesale, but was
compelled to take cent to cent and
half less for the beef and nay five
per cent commission in the bargain.
The carcasscs supplied by the Raymond
ranch wns not 50 large us those of
some of the other ranches, but the
quality Of the beef was as good if not
better.
Market May Be Strong
Considering the shortage of beef,
IA hi n will pag,,lk hn.o Al
tract that the Hawaii Meat Company
has recently entered into with the
army, in which it is supplying beef at
II little less than thirteen cents, which
is less than it can be purchased and
brought here from the Coast for, as
they would not give me n regular ship
ment often enough to take care of my
output | considered it would be best
for me to get out on my own account
and see what could be done.
81 can supply fifteen hundred head
of cattle year but could get no ny
Burnnce that the meat company would
take them ut the market price Under
the new arrangement, l will get my
price and have the opportunity to get
rid of my stock regularly.
In Australia, from where we used
to get great deal Of beef, they are
agltating the new process of slaughter
ing that has been put in operation at
my ranch. The government is now
having laws passed compelling the
slaughter of cattle near the places Of
their pasturage and the erection of
cooling plants at the different stations.
This applies to sheep as well as beef
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