340 On the most simple means of employing dead Animals. 



The value which we have placed upon the different products 

 which maybe obtained from them, is what they yield some leagues 

 from Paris, consumed on the spot or sold in commerce ; in a great 

 number of places in France, which are indeed within reach of cities 

 or sea-ports, the same prices may be obtained, and in almost all other 

 places, the agriculturists collect from them as much and more profit 

 for their own consuming. 



The dissection of these two sorts of horses, has given, in fresh 

 materials, the following mean quantities. 



Skin, 

 Blood, 



Horse of medium size. Horse of good condition. 



kil. gr. kil. gr, 



- ' -. - - 34 37 



- - - 18 500 20 810 



Short and long hair, - 100 220 



Shoes and nails, - 450 800 



Hoofs, ' - - . . 1 500 1 860 



Viscera and appurtenances, bowels, 



liver, brains, 36 39 



Tendons, - - -.".'- 2 2 100 



Fat, 4 150 31 500 



Muscular flesh, (viande,) - 164 203 

 Bones, completely cleared after 



cooking, 46 48 500 



Total weight of the dead bodies, 306 700 384 790 



The preparation of these matters costs but little more than the 

 combustibles (wood, fagots, turf, &c.) which is used, in winter for 

 heating, cooking &c. The other expense is nothing but the labor 

 and in the country there is so much time lost by children and young 

 people during the winter evenings, and at times when there is nothing 

 to be done in the fields, that these new occupations would not often 

 disturb other work and would lessen the danger of idleness. 



The cutting up of dead animals would be more profitable than 

 we have supposed in the preceeding table, if we were to employ the 

 blood and flesh in feeding hogs ; indeed we should obtain still more 

 profit by employing them for the nourishment of man. 



Country people may then obtain at least the value of 60 francs 

 from the use of the dead body of a horse of medium size. How 

 often are they ignorant that with so little expense they may obtain 

 a much greater price from an ox or a cow, whose weight often 

 amounts to more than 450 kilogrammes. 





