The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
HOW PURE LARD IS MADE.

lard " OF the present day, we give De-
low some extracts from the sworn evl.
dence of employees and attaches OF
some of the leading lard manufactures
Of the country, testified to before the
Agricultural Committee of the United
States Senate, March Goth, 1888:
STATEMENT OF JAMES MATTHEWS.
Q. Where have you been working
last =?
A. With John P. Squire & Co., OF
Boston.
Q. How Gag have you worked for
them?
A. Six or seven years.
Q. What did you work at Z?
A. l worked around the tanks four
years-then l worked in the trimming
room-and before l worked on the
clipping and cutting gang.
Q. You worked around the tanks
in the house of Squire & Co., in Bos-
ton, where they make their lard? A.
Yes, sir.
@. Do you know how many kinds
Of lard Mr.. Squire makes ?
A. He makes two, pure lard and
leaf lard.
Q. Tell us how he makes the pure
lard
A. In making the pure lard first he
puts in the pigs heads, and then he
puts the pigs feet in on top, and then
he puts the rough lard and white
grease on top of that.
Q. You say the heads 60 into the
pure lard 4? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you ever see any hair on the
heads ?
A. There would be a little hair on
hem.
O. Where D.?
A. About the ears and nostrils.
Q. Do they pull the hoofs or the
toes off the feet? A. No, sir.
Q. They put them in just as they
are, hoofs, toes and all?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You say hat in making this
pure lard you put in white grease ?
A. Yes, sir.
@. Explain to us how they make
that white grease.
A. They make white grease out of
the feet, quits and the paunches.
Q. How many tanks are there for
that purpose ? .
A. There is two gut tanks.
Q. Tell the committee how they
make the white grease?
A. They put in a couple of boxes
of pigs heads, then quits and paunches
and bum quits all together.
Q. What becomes of it after they
put into that tank?
A. They put that in on top of the
lard after it is tried out.
Q. You have seen this done your
self, have you?
A. Yes, sir. I have worked at it.
CROss-ExAMINATIoN.
.. Now, you say that Mr.. Squire
makes white grease?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And he puts it into what he
calls pure lard q? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Let me ask you what your bust
ness has been at Mr.. Squirrels!
A. My business was around the
tanks this last four years.
Q What were your duties around
the tanks?
A. l used to be loading and un-
loading them.
Q. You say Mr.. Squire makes white
grease and puts it in his pure lard, do
you? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Now, what do you say he makes
that white grease out of?
A. [ say he puts in a couple of
boxes of pigs heads in the bottom and
puts in quits and paunches.
Q. What do you mean by quits?
A. Pigs CUTS.
Q. Do you mean the CUTS them
or do you mean the lard from
the guts?
A. The CUTS themselves, the pig
CUTS and paunches and bum CUTS.
Q. All the CUTS that come out of
hog?
A. Yes, sir. They keep them sepa-
rate and when it gets tried out and
refined he puts that in on top of the
lard.
Q. All the CUTS that are produced
N his factory are put into those tanks?
that what you say? A. Yes, sir.
=. What else does he put in that ?
A. He puts in the pigs heads and
CUTS and paunches and bum quits.
=. And that is what he makes his
white grease of. A. Yes, sir.
y. DO you know anything about
White grease being shipped from the