The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-12-17
THE MORRBFOWNs GAZETTE
WE9NBE0Y DEC. II, 1879.
I osOgEHER6 FARM AND HOME.
How to Dress "a beef.

as a Fat beef may always be prepared foI
domestic use at this season. To sell a
9cow>er steer for $15 and pay fifteen cents
a pound for beef is not money making
engalness5 yet thisis done very frequently.
The value of the hide, taIlOW, heart, head
saDaa3iyer offs beef will amount to a large
portion OF the price that can be usually
obtained country places for an aged
COW or young steer and II we'll fed the
old COW viii 0ftep prs luce as good beef
or better than the steer Farmers would
ottener consume their own animals. ia
stead of selling them, were thew not de-
tered by the, want of nknOwleCl6e of the
manner OF slaugh terings and dressing \
beef animal There Ii asygsv of sla1lol,tek-
ing thatsissnot hntcheriFlvs and It NAV he
done painlessly by. taking the ROLF
caEleaea sGlhe barn G6or or d clean orass
Platima convenient s,55f is sflifabIe for
tflaEw work. 70 fasten the animal mt 4
str0Ilty rope around the horns, and secure
the head in such a way that it cannot be
moved any very. great distance. and in 4
position TO allow d Erect blew to be easily
gwen: Lie eyes may be blinded by tying
Cloth around the ahead, 80 that there
WILDE 40 dOdgiRg ito avoid the stroke.
Inc place for the stunning blow is the
ceateE Of the forehead, between the eyes
and aaittie above them. The best method
isto ire aaball from "a rife in the exact
spot, and this may be done safely when
the animal is blinded by. holding tho
weapon close, to the head, so that a miss
cannot be made; otherwise a blow with
the back OF an axe, made when the
striker Is on the right side of the animal
and the head is fastened adown.iIear the
ground, VIII be equally effectiveI So soon
as the animal falls the throat is divided
with q cut frOm.a long; sharp knife: no
Jack-knife1 should be used. but Il l6ng. 1
deep, sweeping stroke which reaches fol
the vertebr@ as the head is held back. /.
This divides ali the blood=yesseIs.' and
death is almost instan taneous, but at anv
rate pain ess. When the carcass has been
freed from blood, 1t should be turned on
ITS back, and the skin divided from its
throat up the brisket, along the belly to
the les, and up the legs to the knees.
where the joints should be severed. taking
care, however, to cut of-the-h iHd-Efef
below the hook Joints about two or three
inches Iae skin is then stripped from
the legs and belly, and as. neare,te the
back as may be BY 1tdrning the carcass
Ihe. belly is thensop ened, and the mites
tlnes taken out; the brisketiseut throTab I
and the lungs and gullet removed 1T 8 /
now necessaEygt to raise the carcass This /
IS done on the rack, the forward lees Of |
which4s placed on each side of the car. /
cassii;;s the HIDE IS then wholly removed |
the carcass washed and sefaped from /
any thing adhering, and then divided H
doSTn through the backbone, lea1ing the
SIDES hanging. As a matter of safety
from dogs or other dishonest animals, 1t
IS Veil 70 have the We donesin the barn. H
laying down a qllan tityaof straw to pro-
teet the floor, If Thought necessary. as
the beef should remain at least. t Agri-
hours to cool and set-1ET American -
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