MEAT PRESERVING EXTRAORDINARY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 1194, 7 October 1870, Page 3

MEAT PRESERVING EXTRAORDINARY.

[l'rorn the " Sydney Mail."] We understand thafc Messrs. Manning and Staiger entered for the Exhibition here a variety of products from the bullock, which, should they arrive before the exhibits are dispersed, will obtain a place. These gentlemen have now a meat preserving establishment at Town Marie, in Queensland, where they are making much progress. A paper from tbe Ipswich Obsirver in our present issue describes their processes. There will be two hides, each weighing 97 lbs ; four horns, for comb-mnking ; four horn piths, for, gelatine and glue ; eight hoofs, for button-making or glue; one cask of preserved fresh beef, one small cask pf beef tallow, two smoked tongues, one bottle of refined cow-heel jelly for confectioners, 1 tin of essence of beef, 1 skin ofthe essence of beef as sausages, 1 bottle of neatsfoot oil, 1 cask of dried blood, 1 cask of concentrated horse-food, 1 cask of bonedust, 1 cask of artificial animoniacal guano, 1 cake of glue from ears and hide pieces, 1 bottle of concentrated gall for scourers, 1 knot of tail hair, 1 bottle of prussiate of potash from animal refuse. The sheep will yield for exhibition : — 1 washed sheepskin, 1 cask of tallow, 1 tin of essence of mutton, 2 mutton hams, shank bones for cutlery, wool taken off frtsh skins in two hours by Mort's process, and tne pelt. We need not say tbat this will prove a most instructive exhibit. It is one which will illustrate the wisdom of the old maxim, " Care for the littles," and no lesson, perhaps, is moro needed in this colony, where wastefulness characterises nearly all manufacturing processes. In fact, this is an exhibit which should be transferred to a permanent economic museum when the present exhibition is broken up, in order thafc it muy be at hand for reference whenever information is needed on the subject. There are in the exhibition a great many objects that could be acquired and added to it. If they are not complete illustratio s of all the processes from the raw material to the finished product of art, the omissions could be supplied at very little cost, and nothing could afford better teaching to the people of this colony than this practical exemplification of the manner finished results are obtained from crude materials. It must be very apparent to those who know anything of this subject that the business of meat preserving, conducted as Messrs. Manning and Staler are conducting it, must pay. The hides, tallow, and otber products which are extracted from the bullock, apart from the meat, will alone more than repay the prime cost. We should not wonder to learn thafc bullocks which bave nofc averaged more tban £4 ss. each have yielded £3 10s from hides and tallow only. It is very satisfactory to find thafc the judges repcrfc very highly upon the exhibits of meat submitted to them from Town Marie v and that two desired advantages are gamed — that tbe meat can be preserved in wood with perfect safety, anil the strength of the chemicals is reduced. It is not to be supposed that they will be in a position to do much until after the summer is over. What the Sydney Company is doing we know not.