The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-09-12
MEAT FOOD Supply

MEAT FOOD SUPPLY
Writers upon economic TOPICS have been giving
attention TO the failure in meat food supply short
age of beef pork etc. diminishing numbers Of cattle
on the range, and narrowing of range acreage with
constant increase of consuming population, all of
which portend serious conditions in the future
Some of them have been giving study to great sup
plies that may be drawn from oceans depths.
recent articles in one of the magazines has
called attention to possibilities of sea food and it
presented estimates upon it based claims that
from that source alone there may be drawn suf-
ficient meat in great variety to than duplicate
the present meat supply from beeves, sheep and
hogs.
The value of whales for meat products is de-
veloped very clearly, and predictions made that
to supply the world with good meat the whale fish
ing industry, which has languished many years. is
destined to great revival which will cause its ex-
pansion alona new and remarkable lines of great
profit. 1t is predicted that great steamers will be
outfitted to catch whales and pack whale meat for
market putting it up beef is preserved now cam
ed, picked and frozen Each whaling steamer will
be great king establishment, with refrigeration
cooking, pickline and other departments comnlete.
utilizing all the carcass of whale converting it into
corned meat in cans barrels and kits; roast meat in
cans; refrigerated meat in cold storage ready to de-
liver fresh at the mort of delivery with all the various
bv-products that are saved now from carcasses of
U0oVeS
The modern packing house draws it's supply
from rancho and range, which, as well known, have
reached about the limit of production. And all along
the line there is accommodating cost that makes the
finished cost expensive far beyond the purses of the
great mass of the people while the whale herds
iimitabe depths of the ocean, teeming with animal
life, roaming at will through the vast volume of
ters whales and other denizens of the deep in count
less numbers, bea'mg no mans brand, feeding from
no mans land to be had for the taking, and in guam
titles beside which supplies of beeves hogs and sheep
sink into insignificance. One whale, of the blue
species will weigh than three carloads of steers
and will dress more good palatable meat 1t is said
to be the largest animal that ever 1ived reaches
length of 81 feet more, with estimated weight
of 75tons Three carloads of steers would weigh not
more than so tons, anC as the steer has much more
bone in proportion than the whale the clear meat to
from 75ton whale would be far in excess of that in
60-tons of steers
Whale meat is described as equal to beef, whether
refrigerated roast pickled and its general use is
predicted with beneficial results to all the world,
while there are fortunes to be made in revival of
whale fisheries and meat packing industry allied.
Contrary to the belief of many the whale is not
a fish, but it mammalian, which probably originated
upon the land, and away back in his ancestry long
ages ago, took to the waters TO, subsistence and
manned there. He is warm blooded, and breathes =
with lungs, like horses and cows, which have to be
supplied with air to oxygeniZe his blood-unlike
fishes, which breath with g1lls and draw from the
water oxygen needed TO supply with oxygen the
cold blood running in their circulation. Taken from
the water fish dies very quickly. He cannot sur
vive the great quantities of oxygen administered
he breathes. Upon the other hand the whale has to
come to the surface to breathe and receive into his
lungs the supply of oxygen absolutely necessary to
continuance of life. When submerged he has to hold
his breath That can be done for period of As min
utes, and then the animal arises to the surface to
pei the vitiated air and take in fresh supply Ex-
PEELED into the colder air the heated breath forms