A NEW PROCESS OF PRESERVING MEAT.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7285, 15 April 1889, Page 5

A NEW PROCESS OF PRESERVING MEAT.

WONDERFUL IF TRUE,

The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes :—" The most remarkable incident in practical science is the recent test and exhibition ol a new process of meat preservation. I hare been a witness of the marvel—a most cheap and simple process of food preservation of the utmost interest to the colonies. Here is one thing that it claims to do, and which I have no doubt about. It can treat thirty carcasses of oxen for 30s, the time occupied being three hours, and send them a trip of six or twelve weeks as ordinary cargo and guarantee its arrival fresh and good and as pure as on the day the meat was killed. I saw meat, fruits, and fish many weeks old as good in appearance and flavor as when they were sub' jected to the inventor's simple operation. London scientific men have subjected the foods to severe teats, and they are satisfied that at last one of the greatest problems of the day is solved. By-and-by " The Fairy Tale " will be public property. I mention it here as something of the very greatest moment to Australia. Ice is not a factor in the new method; no ice room is required, and the meat is not soddened or the fruit softened. Imagine the possibility of Australia turning rabbits to account. They are a popular article of food throughout Great Britain, and by r,he aid of the new invention they could be packed like herrings, and arrive not only sweet and good, but could be kept a week or so at the poulterer's afterwards. In England during the year tons of fish are destroyed through being too long at sea, or from arriving at an overstocked market. Every smack and steamer can be fitted with ' treated' water, into which fish when caught can be thrown. They will thus remain fresh as when caught for weeks. I saw eels and white herrings which had been kept a fortnight that had as fresh, a sea smell as if they had just come to market. What a blessing to the poor if all this works out in practice as the inventor claims, and as I sincerely believe it will."