The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-03-24

contains 10 pounds and the substance of
fifteen animals, and is worth $25O.0O. 1t
is sent direct to Antwerp, to the company
general depot, where it is examined by a
special chemist employed for the purpose.
After having received that gentleman's
approval and guarantee it is potted in
the small white jars with which we
are familiar, packed in cases, and sent
to all the markets of the world. Though
thirtyfour pounds of lean meat are
required to make one pound of ex-
tract, the substance does not contain as
many nutritive as stimulative qualities,
which act as excitants to the digestive Or
gans and tend to restore the appetite, re-
pair nervous waste and tone up the dsbili-
tated. Being entirely destitute of grease
albumen and gelatin, it cannot spoil nor
lose its flavor, however long it may be
kept in any climate
Brace your nerves for some unpleasant
sights and let us follow the employee who
has been detailed for the purpose and
view the process OF converting huge, full
blooded OK in the pasture, into a few
spoonfuls of brownish liquid The cor
rails are a little way out on the grassy
plain, connected with the Strengthening
yard by stockade- bordered lane. The
cattle are driven into these corrals or pad
docks, fifty at a time and supplied with
a water, but no food. Skirting the lane is
animals HORNS leading down to a smaller
paddock, surrounded by a similar elevated
pathway, with bridge over the opening
into the galpon, which is further closed
by movable beam. Below the bridge is
a low, square, iron truck on a tramway
which runs into another galpon, branch
may pass one another.
Now watch closely what happens. A
villainous looking Guacho, who evidently
finds pleasure in his work, mounts the
stockade and takes unerring aim with his
lasso at the biggest and most powful OK.
One end of the lasso is attached to winch,
turned by steam, which hauls the aston
ished beast, slipping and stumbling
and pushing aside the other animals in
his way, till his head touches the fatal
beam upon which stands matador or Kill
ler, who holds short, broad bladed, sharp
pointed knife. With one blow of this
weapon, delivered close behind the horns,
he sewers the spinal cord, and the huge
victim drops like lump of lead, without
a struggle, upon the iron truck in waiting.
The lasso is then disengaged, and the
truck, propelled by two men, is pushed
into an adjoining shed where one hundred
men, silent but busy as bees, are skinning
and cutting up carcasses.
Following the truck, we observe that
one side Of this great shed is lined with
poles, for hanging meat upon, and the
other side is occupied by Il fiat, slightly
elevated, stone paved place, upon which
the dead cattle are laid. 1t reminds one
of the marble slab at the morgue, and the
sight of the long buildings, splashed with
blood from end to end the pavements
runnn. rivers and clothed blood and fifty
corpses being disme mbered at once by half
naked, blood despatched men, is CHASTITY,
and spoils ones appetite for meat for
many and many day.
Contining our attention to the one es-
pecial carcass, we see it hauled on to the
stone paved platform by means of lasso
attached to horse and placed in position
convenient for the skinner. The latter
worthy, a wild looking Uruguayan spatter-
ed with gore from top to toe like an Az
tions by cutting the animals throat, let
ting loose another river of blood, so hot
that it seems to steam as it seeks the gut
ter and emitting a sickening odor Of fresh
ness The hide is then torn off with mar
Vicious rapidity, and horrible to relate
the huge carcass moves and struggles and
faint below is heard. No doubt the
severance of the spinal cord has rendered
the poor beast dead to all sense of feeling,
but muscular action remains. However,
in less time than it takes to tell it, he is
divided into hundred pieces, and with
lightningiike rapidity the parts are sort
ed and carried off in different directions.
While yet warm and quivering, every par
ticle of meat is cut from the bones, hung
upon the poles that line the other side,
and the skin put to soak in bath of brine.
The minutest scrap is preserved and util-
lied in some shape-even to the entrails,
hoofs, horns and skull. The bones are
ground into powder and mixed with what
remains OF the meat after the juice has
been taken out for the ''eXtract" and to-
gether with the blood and hide trimmings,
are made into fertilizer for the soil which
is said to be better than any guano.
To return to our skinner. His knife is
sharp as razor and he uses it with in
creditable swiftness and dexterity. 1t re
quires just eight minutes to skin an OK
and cut it into hundred pieces, and we
were informed that it can be done in five
minutes.
A skinner salary is Is cents the carcass,
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