INCREASING DEMAND FOR HORSEFLESH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 21 August 1908, Page 3

INCREASING DEMAND FOR HORSEFLESH.

Motor cars increase in numbers hourly in the streets of Parisy but tho'demand for horseflesh increases'also. It is the butchers who clamour for it* pnd, presumably,: consumers 1 as well. The horse is disappearing from tho streets.-but he is eaton in increasing quantity. He has become more, popularthan ever on the. dinner-table since, the •spread 'of automobilism. • During the year ending December 31 last 49,298 Tio.rsos wore slaughtered in Paris alone for 1 consumption and sold by ' 'hippopluagic" butchers, as they are curiously, :if classically, called. Tho animals yielded 26,600,0001b.'0f _ meat. The number of animals slaughtered .in 1907 was in excess 1 of -that for the year before! by nearly 5000 head.;' The increase in "hippophagism"' coincides with tho sudden and. ox-' traordinary: development of the taxi-motor. Ono is driven to'.the painful conclusion that Paris is eating up her superseded cab-horses. But tho conclusion can hardly be'said 'to be a painful ono. for the horses. Better to bo eaten when still more, or less young and healthy than to draw a Paris' Cab, alid especially to be driven by a Paris cabby, till, the last-gasp. Anyhow,/if tho future fato of Paris horses bo to bo bred for tho butcher, they'will at least be fed up wellv One pictures the ' amazement •of tho' cheval de liacre when his- employer' fattening, him. ! The sensation is certainly an utterly, new one for him. Death will come sooner,but at least his'lifo will have been merrier, if shorter.—"Daily Telegraph."