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siccation and fumigation. 2. Salting and packing. 3. Cooking and 

 preserving, either in hemietically sealed cans or under a coating of 

 an impervious protecting material. 4. Freezing. 5. Preservation 

 in air-tight cases containing neutral or antiseptic gases. 6. Con- 

 densing or extracting the nutritive principles of animal food, as by 

 Liebig's and Borden's process. 



It has always been my object to secure for our large dead-meat 

 markets the entire carcasses of animals, and we have succeeded to 

 our entire satisfaction in packing carcasses while yet hot, and keep- 

 ing them so that they might be exposed to a high temperature and 

 the open air of any country, without danger of putrefaction. We 

 cause animals to breathe a gas which sends them to sleep. We bleed 

 and dress their bodies as usual, and then place them in air-tight 

 receivers, from which the air is abstracted. We then fill the vessel 

 with carbonic oxide gas, and open a communication between the 

 chamber in w^hich the meat is contained and another chamber, con- 

 tiiiniug a small quantity of charcoal charged with sulphurous acid. 

 B}'' this means the meat is fixed, and, if hung up to lose a little of 

 its surface moisture, it remains unaltered for mouths. 



I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you here again, when I 

 CAU show you not only English mutton, but the animal produce of 

 your greatest cattle and sheep-rearing territories; and, while I 

 have no doubt we may expect some people to start up and appro- 

 priate some of the information which, in obedience to your patent 

 laws, we must publish, you will freely accord us the priority in 

 devising a new and efficient system, whereby the meat of Texas 

 and the pampas may freel}'- be exchanged for gold in New York 

 and London. 



I i)rize the acknowledgment of this fact«as much as, if not more 

 than, other benefits which are likely to accrue from a new trade, a 

 new branch of commerce, and the only branch needed to civilize 

 lauds which, in fertility and vastness, exceed by far the more 

 densely peopled portions of our globe. 



The Indian recedes with the bufialo; the African is subdued and 

 jungle cleared by the riches, the enterprise and pluck of the white 

 man. There is no object calculated to inspire action or motion in 

 these directions, so promising or alluring, as the cultivation of the 

 Foil and rearing of live stock to minister to the comfort and wants 

 of mankind. The more easily the stock is transported, the more 

 rapid must be the onward march of civilization. I am here to learn 

 more than to teach. I trust to be set right if I have been in error 



