NEW PROCESS FOR PRESERVING MEAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1071, 11 May 1882, Page 3

NEW PROCESS FOR PRESERVING MEAT.

From tho London Times.

A demonstration of a now. method (under Jones' patent) of meat preservation was given on March 6th, at York Terrace, Regent's Park. That which is peculiar to the system may bo stated iu ti iew words. Instead of steeping tho dead meat in an antiseptic, tho preservative chemical is introduced into the live animal, and by tho notion of the heart is sent through tho hlood vossols and capillaries into every part of the body. Tho invention promises to effect a much needed change in the slaughterhouse, and to load 'to tho killing of sheep in at least as humane and painless a inannor as is, aceardiog to high authority, that by which bullocks aro slaughtered. Tho operation was performed under the direction of Mr W. L. Strong, Mr ITnrclwieke, and Col, IJarger, Tho sheep, which was first stunned by a smart blow 011 tho head given with a wooden nrllet, showed no signs of consciousness or sensibility throughout the operation, Mr Win, Hunting, a veterinary surgeon, laid bare the loft jugular vein, and using an ordinary surgical trocar and canula, drew off about a pint of blood. The preservative chemical, dissolved in warm water and kept at blood-heat by a hot waterjacket surrounding the tin can in which it was held was then allowed to flow through an india-rubber tube placed to tile orifice of the caimln into tho vein, about two pints being thus injected. As soon as the charge had run into the animal the canula was plugged, and about two minutes were allowed for the injected fluid to pass through the whole vascular system. Tho sheep was then stuck by n butcher in the ordinary way, Another gheep wqs (lien similarly treated, tl\e whole operation in pying from fauv to five minutes from tl)8 time the animal was stunned until it was carried out dead. Where, however, a number of sheep were roady for killing in a properly constructed slaughterhouse, tho time could be appreciably shortened, Air Slieather, a veterinary surgeon, on whoso premises the demonstration was given, watcljed the pffect o.f t|]o operation an tho pulse of tfie eepoijd sheep, A harder blow having been struck than in tho first case, tho heart had nearly stopped, and it was for a moment feared that tho operation might fail, the complete permeation of the tissues with tho preservative depending on the pumping action of the heart. From 120 boats per minuto the pulse rose during tho loss of blood to about 150, the artery being flaccid. Whou the injection of the fluid began the pulse fell suddenly, probably from the can being held too high and the weight of the column of liquid consequently interfering with tho action of the heart, and the beats were 48 per minute, There was a gradual rise to 72 and then to 150, tho artery no.w tjeing small and hard. Tho a'H'septic ijsfjd is bq'racio ftcjd, which, it is Baid, does not in tho slightest degree affect the flavour or quality of tho meat, while tho results of experiments show that meat thtis treated will, in this country, keep perfectly good without tljo übo of ico or for fjvo or six weoks jn summer, and two or three months in cold weather. Tho actual cost of t|)B chemical, it is stated, I bclievo, would be at the outside 4d or iid per sheep, and the only apparatus required would bo a tank in which by means of a sand bath tho boraoic acid could be kept at blood boat ready for use when killing was going Oil.

It i- diiiated that the total length of submarine telegraph cables in the world is 02,100 miles, having a money value of about X' 10,000,000.

The obsyyatffy of Mount is finished, It is i)6s3ft above tho levl nf the sea, or 1483 ft higher than the G'n.;; St Bernard monastry. Mrs Kate 0, Earl, of Indianopolis, was recently granted a divorce from her husband, this making the third time she has been divorced from him, It is estimated that as the result of the persecution of the Jeivs in Russia }QO,OOO Jewish families have boon reduced to poverty, and property has been destroyed (o the extent of £16,000,000.

A beggar was lecently arrested at Milan for importuning pedestrians. Two thousand pounds were found sewn up in his coat lining. Some persons recently set fire to a postqfljee pillar-bo>; ill Leicester by dropping jn lighted matches, and a number of letters wore destroyed. Qverjny at tho return of his son irom Afghanistan, after an absence of fifteen years caused tho death of an old man in London recently. ' '■ /

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