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respect they acted in the role of Meat Inspectors themselves. 

 Any animals that did not come up to the desired standard were 

 disposed of for by-products. 



Perhaps it will be interesting to readers, and illustrative of 

 the greater use which is made of horse flesh on the Continent 

 than in the British Isles, if I enumerate the trade terms and 

 prices which ruled in Paris in the Spring of 1918. Briefly 

 these were as follows : — 



28,384 animals were sent to the Paris Abattoir for purposes 

 of food during the War up to the Armistice, and the average 

 price realised was £12 16 : alter the Armistice up to the 

 31st March 1919, 8664 were sent, and as they were a better 

 class, on demobilisation, the average price was i£18 10 0. 



In addition to the Paris custom; a large number were 

 disposed of to local vendors at towns in which Veterinary 

 Hospitals were situated — Havre, Eouen, Forges-les-Eaux, 

 Abbeville, Boulogne, Calais, and Sf. Omer, 16,578 were thus 

 sold previous to the Armistice at an average price of close on 

 .£14, while after the Armistice, up to the 31st March 1919, 

 20,679 were similarly disposed of at an average price of a little 

 over £20. The latter included animals classed for destruction 

 on demobilisation, and disposed of in areas occupied by our 

 Armies, a great boon to the population and refugees returning 

 to those areas. It also included the cast horses of the Army of 



