Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-20
HIDE, BONES AND ALL
Nothing is Wasted by Western
Cattle Slaughterers.
Every thing Coming from an AMI
NAL Is Turned to Some Use.

us" said u member of the great Chicago
beef combination to reporter who
asked him about tho business. THAT
is why we can undcrscll Eastern deal
ers," he added.
One of tho large firms of this bee f
combination last year manufactured
from the by-products of the cattle which
they slaughtered and wholcsalcd all
over the country cast of Chicago, and
penetrating into the South, the follow
ing: Clues of all kinds, 5000. 600
pounds; oils and grease 1000, 600
pounds; bone-mc and other fertilizers,
1000 tons. In fact, the bones, horns,
hoofs, tails and blood are used and sold
either manufactured into something or
in its original state. The fertilizer in
dustry is Of very large proportions, and
moro is manufactured near the beef CEN
tcrs than elsewhere.
This is not only true of fertilizer, but
OF olcomarsarinc, CLUES, ncat's-foot oil,
etc. Eastern places manufacture very
little IN comparison, and arc doing less
every year. Before the beef business
was of such proportions in Chicago and
Kansas City the above industries were
quite extensive in the East. Today the
amount of butchcring done hcrcabouts
is so small TINT all the interests con-
ncctcd Herewith are proportionatcly
light.
The large consumption of bones for
making fertilizers causes the gathering
of cattle and horse bones in about every
district where fertilizer manufactures
are situated. The opportunities in the
West for collecting arc the greatest, and
the Western market generally rules the
Eastern price, owing both to the cheap.
ness of bones and fertilizer.
Tho local glue manufacturers buy
bones from the local butchers, and, by
boiling them, make II cheap glue At
intervals cargo or part of cargo of
bones comes from South America, where
they are gathered from the prairie and
sold almost wholly to the manufacturers
of fertilizers. Horns arc manufactured
into CLUES, fertilizers, and into collar
buttons and knife handles and other
purposes.
After the horns have been pithcd they
are sold to the manufacturers of bone
and horn articles, as they are so much
better for their use. The foreign stock
brings more than the domestic, as it is
better for the manufacture of bone
articles.
Years ago, before the beef butchcring
business was conferred in the West, n
large number OF cattle hoofs were gath
cred in the East and manufactured into
neat s. foot oil and also fertilizer. Meats
foot oil in those days was taken from
the foot of the cattle and sold primer
pally tc the leather, boot and shoe men,
rs it is one of tho best oils used for so fl
ening leather. 1t is quite an cxpcn-
,ivc oil.
The manufacture of neat s-foot oil is
confined mostly to the beef c.ntres of
The country. Numerous oils arc now
marked 'neat's-foot' which arc made
from pigs feet and horse oil, both of
which are much cheaper and inferior.
BY extracting the saccharinc matt CT
rom horse oil, extensively manufaclur-
ed IN Boston, clear oil is obtained
which is sold for neat S. foot oil. Quite
number of horse hoofs are gathered
and put into rctorts, which causes fumes
20 be thrown off and which are con-
den sed into ammonia gas. This gas is
one of the principal constituents of fer
lilizcrs, and by uniting with some alb
lorbent and phosphatcs good fertilizer
Is made.
Cattle tails are bought up to quite an
extent by glue manufacturers who want
Them for the golatinous matter contained
hcrcin. Inc hair IS sold for stutlinp
purposes and tho remainder is generally
thrown away rs refuse matter which is
sometimes taken up by farmers as n
manure. The tails are generally sold by
The piece. Tails arc bought from coun-
Try tanners and city brokers. In many
cases when hides are bought of city
broker tho hides aro all weighed to-
gethcr, and when the team is loaded the
'ails are all on the outside, but in many
cases the receiver Of the hides docs not
receive any tails, as they are cut off and
Iold to some ono else for other purposes.
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