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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9774, 22 March 1895, Page 6

■■——■ . i Horses still continue to supply a largo * share of the food of the Parisian consumers , of meat, for while the consumption of the \ French capital for 1893 comprised 160,500 tons of beet, mutton, and veal, 27,000 tons r of pork, 30.000 tons of fish, 22,500 tons of poultry and game, 14,000 tons of eggs, and 10,000 tons of butter, the number of horses ( slaughtered was 22.618, this being inclusive e of 245 donkeys and 51 mules. Out of this _ large total, 1058 were rejected by the in- * spectors as unfit for food ; but the 21,560 * others yielded a weight of 4703 tons, the average weight of each horse and mule j' being 4cwt, and of pach donkey lewt. I fc About a third of the meat was sold at 185 , shops where only horseflesh is offered, the : remainder being used for making sausages, , prices ranging from a franc per pound for j v the best to a fifth of that sum. i a