Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-12-31
The Hog and its Product-The Neg Crl-

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ture-SlaughterIng, Packing, Sc.
Cincinnati has in derision been called Pork
opolis" 1t is true, that she is famed as the
Pork City. But this traffic instead Of being,
in It's process or products a subjects for de-
Iision, is one 10 which Labor and Capital un-
tie men Of character and ability in one OF the
most important interests of the West, and in
which tens Of thousands Of people are imme-
dis,ely or incidently connected
AS the season has fairly set in, and the
mos. extensive Preparations have been made
for doing still more extended bushes than
ever during the months OF Dec, Jan'y, and
Fsb'y we design, in several articles to furn-
ish cur readers, under the above head, with
description of the products of the log, and
thevauhble uses 10 which they are applied,
and in some instances, of their preparation
Tor such use.
THE CULTURE OF TIE HoG.--Throughou
the West most of farmers. large and small,
raise, many or few, of these domestic ami
nials They are.left to gather whatever mast
or refuse feed they can get in the woods, and
when they have frame sufficient. and weigh.
without being fattened, from 100 to 125 lbs.
each, as stock hogs they are purchased b.
disters and driven into pens adjoining these
large establishments and fed on mealy resi-
dun from the vats, aud gen rally sold liur-
ing the year TO Butchers, who use only the
joint parts for Hams and Shoulders, the rest
is rendered into Lard Oil.
Or such stock hogs in various districts are
bought up BY drovers, making that their bus
mess, who having bought, in some convent
ent locality in the district, standing field of
Corn, into which all the stock hogs purchased
insthe neighborhood are driven, they tear down
the stalks and Corn and are thus selffatten-
3D.
At the proper season for slaughter, these
hogs thus fattened, are driven to the most
available avenues to market, and by Rail Road
Canal Boats, by Steamboats, and fatboats on
the River, crossing our ferry boats and in
droxes by turnpike, reach this one Of the great
markets Of the West
The extentent of the cultue Of the Hog in
the State Of Ohio alone and its increase, can
be judged, from the fact that in 1851 there
were assessed for taxation in this State 1885,
CAS- hogs, and in 1853, 2,s4l, SOP. though in
the former year none were listed. The Hog
Stock as found on the farms then in Ohio, In
diana, Kentuckey, Missouri Illinois, and Iowa,
amount TO nine millien Hogs.
sAsit is supposed that 100000 Hogs will
be packed in this market this season, and as
the Pail Road connections with this city are
enlalging the circuit of country which nekes
Cincinnati its great market, the sercessIve
process by which. with labor and capital, it
is distributed in so many shapes to all quar-
ters Of the world may not be uninteresting
TEE PENS AND SLAUGHTER HousEs.-The
live hogs on arrival are driven to immense
pens in Deer Greek and Mill Greer valleys,
adjacent to and connecting with extensive
slauphtering establishments where they are
slaughtered and delivered to the Pork Houses
without any further charge to the owner but
che offal left 10 the slaughter houses.
As sample Of what is done to SO great ex-
tent more or less. in perhaps dozen similar
establishments about the city, we describe
the proceedings at one of the slaughter hous'
90 in Deer Creek Valley:
The hogs for slaughter are allotted, as they
are owned, to different pens regularly num-
bered, all of which communiate to one lead
ing in to the upper end of the slaughter houa
es.. A pen selected for slaughter is open, the
hogs driven up thereto. and some twenty ed
nnitted into one of the two. l1
KNOCK DowK PENs-The door of thi
room is then closed, aud or the backs of thi
hogs crowded inthis narrow pen walks Ton
Boardmau with q double hammer. construc
-s.eeAsf.or the purpose, weighing from 4 to
pounds, and with one blow on the head gen
eaally fells TO the fiooS each one OF the hogs
These are, by two men. hauled oct few lee
on platform where their throats are cut, thu
the blood escaping through lattice floor, AM
sometimes saved for use. and the doors agaiI
opened 10 admit other twenties 10 succession
during 4he working hours of the day, or unit
the So pply Of hogs are terminated. aTh
sticker also makes a cross, or one or two cut
on one leg of each hog, to mark or indlcat
thc.lot Of the respective owners.
THs scALprse Trb.-,This is a wooden tul
10 feet long. 4 2 feet wide and 4 feet deeI
filed with cold water aud heated by steam
and kent heated uniformly by furnace an
boiler adiscent-th the steam being conveyed I
the foot Of the tub by pipe, through whie
the steam escapes Nth roar otauite lou
enou. N TO drown tho squeaiof an unskillfull
felled Do,ker by the ndnrderous blow Of Boart
mans adout,e kuocker." Into this vat {
steam heated water, the hog; after hayin
shed their blood. are passed eonseentlVeil
there always being soma hai' dozed or mon
ia this scalding bath. Two persons at I'll
lower endspress lever. and thereby remoS
two hogs that are iit for The bench; by an al
pearatas oAlledsa rack, the top Of which IS
series of rollers that 10 constantly throSin
out the scAlded animal upod long platforr
even, smooth, and gradually inclined TO th
lower end Ciseianati Gazette. q
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The tive Wards who killed Mr., Butler,
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