MEAT KEEPING IN HOT WEATHER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2116, 4 December 1880, Page 2

MEAT KEEPING IN HOT WEATHER.

The Japanese method of keeping meat fresh in hot weather is just now attracting a good deal of attention in European circles. In consists in placing the raw flesh in porcelain vessels and pouring on it boiling water, whereby the the albumen on the surface is quickly coagulated, and forms a protection against the further action of the water. Oil is then poured on the surface of the water, s» as to prevent the access of air and consequent putrefaction of the meat. The system of protecting animal substances by securing the ceagulation of their albumen and the exclusion of air is of course no novelty, and it can hardly be supposed that we arc indebted to the Japanese for its original adoption. But undoubtedly their method of applying it is far preferable to that practised by ourselves in the process of preserving tinned meats, which appears to consist in boiling them far such a length of time that almost all their flavor is destroyed, and the ultimate result is a mass of tasteless shreds of muscular fibre.— “ Farmer.” Messrs D. O. Newell and Sons, of New York, are, says an American paper, entitled to the thanks of all owners of horse stock for the invention of a new bed for the stable, simple and cheap, and also valuable as a fertiliser. It is a well known fact that the ordinary bedding used in horse stables, from the odour emitted in hot weather, is not only offensive from exhalations of ammonia, but is a constant scarce of disease to the inmates of the stable. All sorts of substitutes have been tried without avail, none having been successful in overcoming the evil. The bedding introduced by the Messrs Newell, and now used with the greatest success in their own stables, East Nineteenth street, is nothing more than ground shavings. It affords a better foundation for horses while standing than straw, sawdust, &s. j it absorbs the urine completely, and as an absorbent prevents leakage and waste in the stalls, dispenses with the use of drains, and eventually becomes a grand fertiliser, retaining all the ammonia and fructifying quality of manure in a concentrated form. These ground shavings also act as a disinfectant, and avoid the tarnishing of coach varnish, harness, &0., so prevalent in all our stables. Mr August Belmont has adopted the use of this new bedding for his stables at Babylon, L. 1., with great success, and wo look to see it in general use in a very short time.