The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-14
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OLD BONES.
me Uses to which the Shin, Thigh and Leg
Bones of Dead Animals are Put.

Ai,Yo Uses 10 Wnich tine SHIN, Thigh and Leg
Bones of Dead Animals are Put.
"Them there is kittled stewed and
these here is tank billed, " said the fore
man of bone-boiling establishment on
Aong Island, pointing to two piles Of
ON bones which had passed through
th9 rendering process. Them slick
bones over there is shins and them yen
de1is bones out O the forelegs O. cat
tle| Here's lot o shinbone knuckles
already for burnin' They'll be chucked
IN With that pile O ribs. skulls, and mis-
ceAaneous j'ints We see in the corner,
ana all made into bone-black. The
oumers would like to have the best quail
lty5f bones for their use, because they
getmore charcoal out O them than they
klnout o the common bones. The bone
btaS they make they sell to sugar re-
mn $, and this big heap o old ribs and
sku Is and odds and ends o cattle and
she'p skeletons here will list as like as
not G tilterin' sugar in few DAYS, and
son O you fellers may be putin some
o 2 same sugar in yer coffee fore a
we S over.
tut the best quality of bones is shins
AM thighs and fore legs, and we don t
waste no shins, nor no thighs, nor no
trolt legs on the bone-burners nor the
fertilizer grinders. They can't pay
more than twenty-five dollars ton for
thebest there is, and we kin sell all the
0shys we kin git for forty dollars ton.
Thighs is worth eighty dollars a ton to
us, and every ton o. front legs we
kin b$le fetches us thirty dollars.
''The>manuiacturers of knife handles.
sleeve buttons, collar buttons, bone
jewelry, parasol and umbrella handles,
combs, tooth brushes, hair brushes, and
all sorts of things that bone kin be used
in buy all these parts o skeletons that
the country kin produce. The thigh
bones is used for tooth brush handles
more than any other, and all in this
country. The bones for buttons and
knife handles mostly goes to Europe.
Fancy paraSol handles is turned out O.
sleeps legs, and some O. the incest
ivory fans We ever see used to be trottin'
some old ram or eve around the past
ure lot. Sheep leg bones polishes up
slicker than any other bones, and hain't
so brittle as the shin bone of a cow OF
the thigh bone of steer
1--WE collect bones all over the country.
A ton O pig iron amt worth more than
quarter as mnch as a ton of the COM
monest kind of bones is when it is ready
for the burner or grinder. The West
almost fills the bone market now.
there is so much cattle slaughterin'
done out there. The bone b'iler gets
hair oil, neatsfoot oil, and sizin' glue
out of his stock as he gets it ready for
the market. Bones that we sell to fer
tilizer grinders we bile the meat off in
open kittles, cause they bring Just as
much as if W" put 'em in tight tanks
and billed EN- under pressure. We do
that with the bones for burners, cause
it takes out the nitrogen slick and clean
and leaves the carbon, and that's what
makes the boneblack.
1--WE git pint of good neatsfoot oil
out O. every good set o shins and hoofs
of a COW or steer The liquor that's left
after bilin' the thighs and shins makes
as good sizin' glueas paper manufact-
urer kin get, nowadays. We kin git
enough marrow out Of a car load O
bones to stock any barber shop with
bears grease for month. The best
bears grease is made out o the mar
row of old bones.
Bone billing don't smell very good.
that's so. At least that's what every
body thinks cept the ones that's maxim
the Doodle ont of it. ~ Y Sun.