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town consumption is unquestionable, and in the face of 

 the serious consequences to the pubhc health arising 

 from the consumption of ill-conditioned and more or less 

 ' tined ' meat, it is high time for some popular or autho- 

 ritative movement to secure a supply of good-conditioned 

 wholesome beef. 



Note. 

 The Utilisation of the Beef of the River Plate. 



There has reached me from England the announcement of a 

 new, or a modification of a known, process of preserving raw 

 meat, in a perfectly fresh state, in tins, from which the air has 

 been exhausted and ' nitrogen ' substituted. Also there have 

 arrived in Buenos Ayres, two gentlemen, Messrs, Sloper and 

 Paris, to experiment on a process of the former, which has 

 likewise the object of preserving the meat in a perfectly fresh 

 and raw state. 



These gentlemen have brought out samples of English-fed 

 beef preserved on the plan of Mr. Sloper, which manifests a 

 perfect preservation ; in appearance, odour, and flavour iden- 

 tical with fresh-killed meat. 



I conceive that the results of the working of their processes, 

 or any others that may be invented, must be subject to the 

 general law, and dependent relatively on the condition of the 

 animals slaughtered ; heuce the question evolves. Can the flesh 

 of the grass-fed animals of South America be preserved by any 

 process so as to reach Europe as sound, palatable, and nutri- 

 tious food ? 



I think that there can be little doubt that it can be so pre- 

 served, ^provided always that the conditions I have set forth in 

 the course of this work are observed, and the grasses which are 

 to constitute the food of the animals, allowed to attain a certain 

 completeness of organism, a certain maturity before they are 



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