BEEF EXTRACT

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1941, Page 5

BEEF EXTRACT

SCIENTIST’S DISCOVERY

(BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.]

(Received April 28, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 27.

A method of extracting all the nutritive and stimulative properties of beef has been discovered by Lt.Col. Watkins Pitchford, enabling the transport of concentrated food to England by air. It is claimed that a flying-boat with a capacity of three and a-half tons can convey all the nutriment m 121 carcases of an average dressed weight of 560 pounds. The food content of 51.600 carcases of beef could be transported in a ship having refrigerating space for 6000 carcases. 8 The method is applicable to a wide range of foods, without appreciably affecting the flavour.

Lieutenant-Colonel Watkins-Pitch-ford was the originator of the modern treatment of the disease rinderpest, and discoverer of the scrum method of curing and preventing that disease. He devised means for the repression of the disease known as East Coast fever of Africa, and also showed the cause and the manner of prevention of African horse sickness, and of pneumonia amongst British horses in the Great War. From 1918 to 1922, he was commandant of the Army Veterinary School at Aidershot.