========================================== | ANIMALS KILLED IN THE SALADEROS. | ----- Years. | Argentine Repub. | Uruguay Repub. -------+------------------+--------------- 1876 | 551,443 | 625,457 1877 | 662,500 | 527,600 1878 | 572,500 | 677,026 1879 | 539,000 | 556,500 1880 | 491,500 | 665,500 1881 | 399,000 | 576,170 1882 | 434,500 | 738,500 1883 | 365,100 | 704,400 1884 | 316,800 | 853,600 1885 | 610,700 | 647,029 1886 | 480,900 | 751,067 1887 | 327,208 | 499,554 1888 | 467,450 | 773,449 1889 | 701,400 | 708,923 1890 | 764,000 | 642,100 1891 | 844,600 | 613,500 =======+==================+=============== A description of every one of the saladeros that exist in the Republic cannot be given here, being so limited in the space to be disposed of; however, it is necessary to make known the importance of the great establishment for elaborating the extract of meat by the Liebig system. The establishment is situated on the coast of the River Uruguay, and is known to be the first establishment of its kind, not only in the River Plate, but also in all South America. The following lines will give an idea of it. Two kilometres southward from Villa Independencia, in Fray-Bentos, Department of Rio Negro, is the great establishment of "_Liebig's Extract of Meat Co._" which forms by itself an important center of population. It was founded in the year 1864 by M. Gibert. The first exportation of 230 kilogs of extract of meat got to Antwerp in November of the same year, and Baron Liebig declared that it surpassed all his hopes. Soon over 918 kilogs were exported monthly. In the year 1866 the Company was founded in London, and M. Gibert had all the machinery made in Scotland for the establishment, which began working in May, 1868. All the world knows now the extract, and its use is everywhere adopted, in the hospitals as well as in the barracks. At the Paris Exhibition in 1867 the highest prizes were given to M. Gibert for his _Extractum Carnis_, this extract being the only product out of 75,000 sent to the Exhibition rewarded with two gold medals. In Vienna also in 1873 it won the great gold medal over all the other systems employed in Australia and other countries. M. Gibert died in 1874. The establishment has gone on as prosperous as ever.