Interesting Exhibition at the French Municipal Abattoirs Although the new French Municipal Council Abattoir has for some time been functioning, the formal opening did not take place until Monday morning because of lack of proper facilities for slaughter of cattle. In addition to the usual manner of celebrating such affairs, considerable interest was awakened in the Chinese population through the inclusion of a stock and cattle show. local purveyors of animals ultimo ately to be furnished to this establishment responded very enthusiastically and made merry, ringing to the abattoir 70 head of cattle, 10 calves, 100 sheep, 50 goats, 20 buffaloes, and 50 pigs, besides which there were on exhibit stock from the farm of Mr. Henry Morriss, Roselawn Dairy, Culty Dairy, and Inshallah Dairy.
The contesting parties were divided into groups, for the reason that the Chinese producers of native bred stock felt that they could not fairly compete with the foreign bred animals, so it was decided that native bred stock should not be judged and criticize ed as against the foreign bred, but separate ratings be apportioned. With this division agreed upon the show proved to be an harmonious success, for the intense rivalry among the Chinese cuffered not in the least in that they competed only among their own brands. On the other hand the fact that the foreign bred animals made such a good showing as compared with others, impressed upon the owners of the latter that theirs were not the best that could be produced, which it is expected will cause them to profit from the example set. The huge carcasses of slaughtered foreign cattle on exhibit, con-tasted with the native, must surely have illustrated beyond the pale of the most dense, the vital supericrity of European and American stock.
The most educational display was perhaps that of the Chen Shin Butchery who with their dif-bones become larger, meat stringier, and more fat intermingled with the sinews. A portion of their herd consisted of a hybrid group, being the offspring of a buffalo bull and a cow mother, and are said to make quite good eating beef.
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