The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-16
TRANSFORMED INTO BEEF.
Lightning Processes of Turning AMI
mails Into Solid Food.
From the Chicago Tribune.

lightning PROCESSES OF turning AMI
mails Into Solid Food.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Mr., Libby said to me:
THE timekeeper has just been down Civ
ing it to bad for putting you upstairs. He
said It's shame to put that young lady
up there in all that grease. Give her nicer
work. Who is she? l told him l was just
obeylng orders and knew nothing about
you. Come on, now, and I'll show you the
whole process of making cow into a can
of corned beef"
We passed down into the slaughter houses.
saw some high stalls and man with NAL
let passing from one another. There was
that dull, sickening thud,n a gate was
lifted a steer jerked up by the hind legs and
its throat cut. Then it was pulled clear up
out of sight to bleed and be drawn
The next time it appeared the hoofs and
head had been taken off, ready to skin At
least a dozen men waited their turn for au
animal to come down on the endless chain.
hanging still by the hind legs. The hide
was removed. Inc next men split the back
bone, and the two halves were passed on to
be washed and wiped.
After this process, the two halves swung
into chute, and down an incline plane to
the cutting Here the first man made
Il CUT DtGNbcl TIE lOuEIu ana MIN ribs.
another followed with a saw and separated
the fore from the hlndquarters. The hind
quarters went on to the cooling-rooms, to
be shipped for dressed beef, while the fore
quarters were thrown on the cutting blocks
Passing from one cutter to another. every
man making a certain cut the whole uiece
was cut Up, stripped of the bones, and sent
to the curing rooms to be made into corned
beef
The assortment is wCnderful-every part
is utilized. the bones go to the fertilizer the
shank bones to the factory for making
knlfe-handles, etc. the suet and fat into
tallow; the hoofs to glue factory kidneys,
hearts, etc, are canned INTO minced seal
lops or sold to local dealers; tongues are dis
posed Of in the same way, and the oxtails
are cooked into soup.
After curing, the corned beef in large
pieces Is shipped in barrels, the smaller
pieces beng cooked and canned by the
packers.
The hind quarters of beef, after being
cooled, are shipped in refrigerator cars TO all
parts Of the country. One department con-
tains supplies for the local trade, the best
besves being dressed in halves and bought
by retail butchers.
Down in the basement immense engines
run night and day, also an ice machine, by
which any cold temperature is maintained
thermometer was found to stand below
freezing point. Hundreds of barrels of
meat lay in the store-rooms ready to ship.
Twelve hundred cattle are handled every
day ana converted into marketable form.
In the tin shop all the cans are made in a
dozen sizes and shapes. A pattern shears
cut out can at one clip; another cuts and
stamps and turns the edges of the top and
bottom. A third machine grasps the strip
in It's iron embrace and seams it while a
man feods the machine and soldiers the
seams. The tops and bottoms are fitted on
the round cans fed to a revolving soldering
machine, which drops them when so!dered,
and the square ones are soldered by hand.
Scrap tin is cut up into caps by another
mechanical arrangement. And the useless
scraps are sold, the tin melted of to be used
again.
After labelling the cans are packed in
b Xes and the nails driven in with a ma
chine that tastens the whole row at one
blow. 1t is all macbinery-machinery the
use for merely mechanical men is dying out
constantly, and new race with Intelligence
enough to guide the mechanism of ma
chinery is taking their place.
One of these days there will be brainv
man or woman (wny notG VINO Will make a
patent labeler and varni,har. Then "a su.
percllious, welldressed young woman, who
would scorn the position II typsw tier, will
stand aud feed a machine that turns out
blue topped cans with al the wrigEllng vel.
low lines put straight, and all the constol-
lations Of yellow stars performing their
prescribed orbits.