The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-07-02
Making Beef Extract.

June, as many as 1900 day sometime
being killed for 20 daysin succession, with
out single break. This year the average
was 1000 head day to kill or dispatch
for the process is SO quick and skillfully
conducted, the latter seems the more fl
term to use The bullocks are all Of the
choicest herds, and in splendid condition
They are decoyed by two trained bullocks
from the larger outer corral down long
passage about half mile long, bordered
in on both sides to height of about 1O
feet, until they come into smaller corral
next to the dispatching post. When this
inner corral is filled with about 100 head
of cattle, man standing on the top throws
a lasso round the two horns of one of the
lot; this lasso is drawn by two horses on
the outside, mounted by couple of poems
or farm boys, who in this manner drag the
bullock on to a sliding truck up against a
barrier, at which stands the matador, who
with one sharp and energetic plunge of a
sharp knife in the back Of the neck sewers
the spinal cord, when the animal instantly
falls down insensible, and is dragged out
on the truck to the charge of other men,
who in turn perform different functions in
most skilltul and systematic manner.
One man drives long knife and cuts open
the heart; another catches the blood in a
large wooden vessel, and pours it into a
barrel close at hand, whence it is taken
with other parts of the offal to the diges-
ter, aud boiled down with bones, cuttings,
&c, for guano Another man commences
to disembowel the carcass, another to fay
it, and several others to cut the meat off
the bones; another cuts the head of, anoth-
er takes the tongue out, and others with
large axes cut the bones up into small
pieces. The whole process occupies less
than seven minutes All the fat, the
coarser tissues and sinews are separated
from the flesh aud boiled down, and re-
duced to tallow in different qualities. The
bones and coarser fbres are, after coming
out of the digssters, dried aud spread out
to dry on large fat places covered with
tiles, put into mills, and ground up into
bone-dust and guano,
This guano yields per cent. of ammo
MIA to 13 per cent. of the regular Peruvian
guano, and by its sale covers the enormous
expense Of 1000 tons of coal imported by
the company per season from Cardiff.
The tongues are taken TO a separate room,
where they are well washed and scalded,
after which they are placed in round tins,
with small hole in the centre of the top,
and then all boiled together, and before
they cool down the little air-hole 10 the
centre is solGered up. The tins then are
taken to another room and vanished over,
to prevent them rusting, after which they
are packed in wooden boxes containing
four dozen each.
CONCENTRATED BEEF.
The most important process Of all, how
ever, yet remains The meat, when strip
ped off the bones, and divested Of all car
tilage matter, fat, siucws, bones, &c, is
hung up for one day to settle, and then it
is taken into another part Of the building
aud put through q number Of sausage chop
pcrs, after which it is carried in buckets,
the contents Of which are weighed to an
ounce, and put into dozen mighty cal
drons, through which steam is injected.
Soon Il becomes 4 light beef tea. Great at
tenlion is paid to this part of the process, so
as 10 stop exactly at the right moment, for
il will not answer to wait until the fibre or
any muscle in the meat should soften, for
this would injure the quality of the extract,
and for this reason less than fifty per cent.
or the nu,ritive quality is extracted in the
form Of thin beef tea. This flows from
the yats in a very pale straw-eolor. This
liquid is forced through various tubes,
through different sleeves and cauldrons, un-
I'll It's bulk is materially reduced; this pro-
cess being repeated until all the water is
aud only a pulpy paste re-
mains, so familiar TO us all as "Leibig's
extract of meat In this manner one
bullock weighing 800 pounds is reduced
to a substance of pounds, This is sealed
up in tin cases about one foot square, con-
taining 100 pounds and sent to Antwerp,
where at the branch establishment there,
it is made up into smaller packages for
expectation all over the world. How Gu
rious to reflect that each Of these little tin
boxes Of one foot square contains the ex-
tract Of about fourteen head Of cattle.
Truly might Liebig adopt as his motto
Comma sub pedibus suis subieeisti, ct owes
ct boyes. Tile London Field.
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