The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-19
ConmunipaW.

One of the most attractive places for
traveller to visit, whether he be a farmer o.
not, is Communipaw. Taking the Heart
and Home office, 81 Park-Rew. as our start
ingpoint. You proceed westward two block.
to broadway, cross over to ST. Paul:
church, opposite the Herald building Their
down Broadway to Liberty street. and al
/ the foot Of that you will find the ferry Of
/ the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Or
the other side you can either take stage,
which will carry you direct to the cattle
yards, or the railroad, which will drop YOU
about thirty rods away. The ferry and
omnibus fare is thirteen cents the ferry
and railroad ten cents; and the time occu.
pied i'll reaching the place not over twent,
minutes by either route.
There are thirty eight acres of land oc
cupied in various ways by the company
that own the yards and the Abattoir con.
nected thcrewth-ten acres of which are
! devoted entirely to cattle pens, Of which
there are sixty. Most are paved or plank.
ed, and all laid out in the most convenient
and built in the most substantial manner.
Beside the pens for the cattle, there is a
building for the hogs and sheep, 800 feet
long by 100 feet wide, three stories high,
which contains a little over six acres OF
floor
The two lower floors are devoted to
swine; the upper one exclusively to sheep.
There are some two hundred apartments
on each floor, most of which are furnished
with conveniences for feeding and watering
both kinds of stock.
These floors are reached by inclined
plains, up which the animals have no diff
Guilty ia ascending, and the pens are as
neat and clean as constant cleansing and a
supply of disinfectants can possibly make
them.
Next in size is the building where the
cattle and hogs are slaughtered. This
building is $50 feet long by 100 feet wide,
and three stories high. The lower story is
devoted to Strengthening the cattle, and will
hold anywhere from two to three thousand
si'"S Vi pSCi "HCu ltd'iy lol tuC IidlhCt.
The second story is devoted to hogs. and
will hold anywhere from three to five thou
sand dressed. In the rear of this building,
and connected with it, is another devoted
to the Strengthening of sheep. 1t is about
so by GO feet, two stories high, with az
engagements on both floors for rapidly and
neatly doing the business.
All these buildings are so connected that
from any cattle-yard or hog pen or sheep
pen animals can be driven, with no incon-
venience, into the apartments from whence
they are taken to thc-bock.
In addition to all these buildings, there
is a hotel on the grounds, 10 by 60 feet,
with ample accommodations for a hundred
ledgers, while two telegraph-lines connect
the office with the outside world.
Most of the stock received at Communi-
paw comes from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
Occasionally dozen or twenty carloads of
Texas cattle, that find their way through
Missouri to some of the leading Railroad
lines, are added to those brought from
other States; and also few carloads of
hogs and sheep from Pennsylvania or West
ern New York help to make up the general
aggregate.
Most of the cattle come in Sunday morn
ing, Sunday night, and Monday morning;
with now and then cattle train during
the daytime hours of the Sabbath Mon
day is the great market-day, and Friday
next.
Generally about twenty head Of cattle
are unloaded from single car; from two
hundred to two hundred and twenty sheep;
and all the way from seventy-five to one
hundred and twenty hogs, according
to their size. The arrivals some days
amount to one hundred and fifty carloads,
all told and out of this number there have
been one hundred and ten carloads of
sheep.
During the past year there have been
received 1874, 229 cattle, 453, sos hogs, and
-tl3, 106 sheep. OF these, 90, 0S4 cattle have
been slaughtered most of the butchers
driving to private slaughter houses,) 452,
35S hogs, and 43S, ia sheep; in all, 1,03l,
+4Ata3 animals received, and $40, $50 killed.
Everything in the shape of cattle enter
ing the yards is charged thirty cents hegs,
eight cents and sheep three, which the
drover must pay when they are taken from
the cars. Outside of this there is no charge
except for food.
n ia hn fsf 10 cfc II Y
pays for each hog killed three and a half
cents for hot water, conveniences, etc. for
each beef, he gives the feet; and for the
Use of the sheep slaughter-house, $25 a
month which gives an income to the own
ers of the ground and buildings for rents
alone Of over $4,000 per annum.
Every thing in this line is complete. In
one portion of the building is steam en-
CINE, which serves to do all the hosting, and
a boiler that serves to heat the water for
the scalting-tubs, ana also to furnish steam
to try out the tallow and lard, which is
done i'll the neatest possible manner, and
with the utmost dispatch. Over and about
all are innuluerable sections of hose lead
ing from mains, that furnish an abundance
Of water, to not only use about the animals
that are slaughtered, but in cleansing the
building of all the particles of otfal after
each days work.
One man will average about a sheep in
five minutes; a gang of five men will dress
sixty heefcattle in ten hours and a gang
of twenty-five men will kill, scald, pick,
and finish complete one hog, on an average
ttakingt tho day together, in thirty seconds,
or one hundred and twenty an hour
Taking the yards for cattle, the builNing
that contains the pens for hogs and sheep,
and the pens themselves. and all the ar
rangements for Strengthening, and imme-
diately and neatly disposing of tue offal,
there is no establishment that equals it OH
this side of the ocean, and but few, if any,
OH the ether.-He earth and Home.
You can always find sheet of water
IN the he1 Of tho ocaan