Show r n l D port J. i In n a a. report rop a Cate de de f I Mr Du Bois Dais on t tt State C Consul j General at St St. Gall Gall Switzerland as makes kes some Interesting disclosures regarding l the tho general use uso o of horseflesh as a an aD a article ar aT are title of food In Europe He jaya the I Swiss press Is giving attention at at- alI attention tenton to the following statement I An A American horse meat company has been organized In Kearny N N. Y whose object Is to prepare horse meat for the European market In tho the form I of sugar-cured sugar horse hams smoked horse tenderloins tenderloin pickled horse ribs I and salted h horseflesh This merit ment will willbe willbe be sent in boxes marked dIstinctly j horse moat moat meat and each shipment Is tobe to tobe be carefully Inspected and accompanied I fed by a certificate that hat It ft Is pure horsemeat horsemeat horse meat and In a n. wholesome condition I Mr Du Bois Dois comments on this statement statement statement state state- ment as follows I 1 cannot find any town by the name of Kearney In the state of New york Fork and the Item looks like one of the kind that the European Journals jeal jealous as of ot American trade take In In circulating But whether there Is ts truth In this report or 11 I not there i iq iS certainly I a demand for good wholesome wholesome- horse meat meat In some of the markets market of Europe In many of the towns are to be found well stocked markets where nothing but horse meat is sold sold fresh fresh salted smoked and in sausage form torm The prices range from 5 cents to S 8 c cents per pound according to cut and a large rge amount of this meat Is purchased by y the poor poorer r classes The Tha horses used are old ones or those killed kill kill- killed ed by accident The people who buy this meat claim that they prefer It to the tough cow meat that Is sold for Cor from 8 to 12 cents per pound It is IS' sweeter more more mr tender and quite as wholesome a according cording to their state tate statements ments The shops where horse moat meat is sold always have a horse meat market mar mal racket ket sign conspicuously displayed 31 3 that no deception Is possible If It he purchaser buys horse meat and eats Itlie it ithe ithe he lie does so knowingly In this respect tho the municipal Inspection is thorough A butcher licensed to sell beef If found selling horse meat would be severely severe and prom promptly punished e e Gradually GraduallY wa are shaking off oft the yoke of super superstition We have regarded regard regard- ed It as almost sinful to eat the flesh 1 I of the horse but we eat at the flesh of tho the thoI I hog without thought The food of the horse Is always clean grain and hay bay food cl titan clean an enough to put Into our own mouths could we but digest it while the food of th the tha hog Is swill and scavenger scavenger scavenger enger food quite q generally There Is no reason why we should not make a practice of shipping horse flesh to foreign foreign for for- eign countries If Il they desire It and desire desire desire de de- sire It they do If It we could work off a afew afew afew few hundred thousand poorly bred horses In this way It would be a a. Rood hood thing for the American merican farmer even even If it he be had to se sell sell I them without profit rot ot much llna financial lal cial gain could be expected expected expected ex ex- but to dispose of them for something woul be better belter than shootIng shooting shoot shoot- Ing fag them and leaving them to the crows It has ficen a frequent occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence to shoot even even young horses when they could not be sold We Wo remember of ot one man that that a few years ago shipped shIpped shipped ship shIp- ped a carload of horses to the Kansas City market They did not bring the freight and he was lamenting that he ha had not taken them out into the back lot and shot and buried them Poorly bred horses should be disposed of ot at atthe atthe atthe the first opportunity |