Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-01-12
From the Cincinnati Gazette ]

been called "Porkopolis." 1t is true,
that she is famed as the Pork City,
But this traffic instead of being, in its
process or products subject for de.
rision, is one in which Labor and Capi'
tai unite men of character and ability in
one of the most important interests o.
the West, and in which tens of thou
sands of people are Immediately or in
cidentaly connected. f~
As the season has fairly set in, and
the most extensive preparations have
been made for doing still more ex,
tended business than ever during the
months of Dec, Jan'y, and Feb'y, we
design, in several articles, to furnish
our readers, under the above head,
with a description of the products OF
the hog, and the valuable uses to which
they are applied, and in some instances,
of their preparation for such use.
The CULTURE OF THE HoG.--Through-
out the West most of the farmers. large
and small, raise. many or few, of these
domestic animals. They are left to
gather whatever mast or refuse feed
they can get in the woods, and when
they have aframe sufficient, and weigh,
without being fattened, from 100 to 125
lbs. each, as stock hogs they are pur-
chased by distillers and driven into pens
adjoining those large establishments
and fed on a mealy residum from the
vats, and generally sold during 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 dis
tricts are bought up by drovers, making
that their business, who having bought
in some convenient locality in the dis
trict, a standing field of Corn, into
which all the stock hogs purchased in
the neighborhood are driven, the hogs
tear down the stalks and Corn and are
thus self-fattened.
At the proper season for slaughter,
these hogs, thus fattened, are driven to
the most available avenues to market,
and by Railroad, Canal Boats, by
Steamboats, and fatboats on the River,
crossing our ferryboats and in droves
by turnpike, reach this one of the great
markets of the West.
The extent of the culture of the Hog
in the State of Ohio alone and its in
crease, can be judged from the fact
that in 1851 there were assessed for
taxation in this State 1,456,643 hogs,
and in 1853, 2,341. 500, though in the
former year none were listed that were
under six months old, now all are listed.
The Hog Stock as found on the farms
then in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Illinois and Iowa, amount to nine
million Hogs.
As it is supposed that 45O,0 Hogs
will be packedin this market this season,
and as the Railroad connections with
this city are enlarging the circuit of
country which makes Cincinnati its
great market, the successive processes
by which; with labor and capital, it is
distributed in so many shapes to all
quarters of the world may not be unin-
teresting. g. yr to
The PENS AND SLAUGHTER HoUsEs.-
The live hogs on arrival are driven to
immense pens in Deer Greek and Mill
Greek valleys, adjacent to and connect
ing with extensive slaughtering estab-
lishments, where they are slaughtered
and delivered to the Pork Houses with
out any further charge to the owner but
the offal leftin the slaughter houses. IN :
loAs a sample of what is done to as
great extent, more or less, in perhaps a
dozen similar establishments about the
city, we describe the proceedings at one
of the slaughter houses in Deer Greek
valley: = ,l1aiaib1t is1s.'s sis sTdi9s
The hogs for slaughter are allotted,
as theyare owned, to diferentpens regu-
larly numbered, all of which communi-
cate to one leading in to the upper end
of the slaughter house, A pen selected
for slaughter is open, the hogs driven
up thereto, and some twenty admitted
into one of two ..a7sHT &
-YKEocK Down PKNs.-The door of
this room is then closed, and on the
backs of the hogs crowded in this mar
row pen, walks Tom Broadman with a
double hammer constructed for! the
purpose, weighing from J to- pounds,
and with one blow on the head general
ly fells to the floor each one of the hogs.
These ares by two men, hauled out q
few feet onto platform where their
throats are cut, the blood escaping
through.a lattice floor, and sometimes
saved for use, and the doors opened to
admit sother tWenties in succession
during the working hours of the day,
or until the supply of hogs are termi-
mated The sticker also makes cross,
or one or two cuts, on one leg of each
thog, to mark or indicate the lot Of the
Irrespective owners iIGms1 ybas1is sTa
/ uTHE ScALDISel TuB.-This is wood
en- tub Is feet long, II feetrwide and
fleet deep, filled with cold water and
heated by steam, and kept heated uni,
fformlyIby sfurnace and boiler adjacent
I-thestean being conveyed tolthe foot
of the tubilby q pipe, through which
the steam escapes with roar not quite
loud enough to drown the sqneal ofiar
unskillfully dfelled pofkersby the nnr'
| derous blow offs iBroadman's' "doublt
knocker. 19aInto this vat 1of steam
heated awater. the hogs, after having
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