The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-11-13
4 FioaIisking Rev Industry.

1hcre are different ways OF Killing i
hog, but Mr. Charles Kittner, the heas
butcher employed by the Union Provision
3 Company can kill hog more expeditions
/ ly than any man in this section of th'
/ country. on Friday afternoon last ht
slaughtered and dressed thiuy-two hog,
in a little less than two hours time. Thii
no doubt seers like quick work TO MANY
fCur farmers who usually devote from
fifteen to eighteen hours to "bltchering'
one or two animals. The Provision Com.
pany have every facility that ingenuity
can devise at hand 10 assist in slaughter
ing animals, and it is safe to say that Mr..
kittner and his assistants do not work
much harder to kill drove of hogs than
the average farmer does to kill pair of
pigs.
Some time ago we published descrip-
ton of the Union Provision Comp any's
plant. Since then number of new pieces
of machinery have been added and to-day
they not only slaughter and dress hogs.
but they manufacture several of the by
products obtained from these animals. In
fact nothing is permitted TO 60 10 waste,
even the bristles are jealously collected,
and parts Of slaughtered animals that
hitherto were cast away are converted
into marketable goods.
\ visit to the slaughter and packing
house is fall of interest to those who have
never witnessed scientific hog killing and
pork packing. The porkers are first
driven into pen where they are slang it-
cred and dumped into vat OF boiling
water \ large fork tGsses the dead ami
mai onto a table where the bristles are
rapidly stripped from its hide, and a
gambrel sti, k is placed between his
hind legs and by means ola crank it is
jerked in position on n carrier. Now the
butcher advances with his huge knife
aud with three or four deS;rous strokes
the animal is disemboweled. \ push
from the hutcher's hand gives it suf-
ficient momentum to run it along the
carrier into the cold storage warehouse
I'm the centre of the building, when
another hog is strung up TO undergo the
same process. Meanwhile an assistant
collects the intestines and places them in
a bnge iron tank, into which all the
homes that fall from the dressing table
are also deposited. Steam pipes are
attached to this vessel and here they are
boiled until almost every particle Of
oil has been extracted from them. The
process OF extracting the oil Is an ingeni-
Gus one. In the first place the oil escapes
from the tank at different points, and
what remains Is deposited in a tub of wa
ter. where all that rises to the surface is
skinned off; the water rams through
another and a third irb, when not a par
ticle OF oil remains. The solid matter in
the tank is placed under hydraulic
press when sufficient power is applied to
il 20 compress it to the solidity of clay.
The oil is utilized hy manufacturers of
soap, while the solid matter is 4 valuable
ingredient of commercial phosphate.
The blood from the slaughtered animals
Is also a source Of profit. 1t is collected
in tanks anG boiled until it becomes solid
when il is packed up and shipped to
manufacturers OC commercial fertilizers.
The killing is all done on the fourth
floor OF the building and here too the
carcasses are cut up into CHAINS" and
sides" the fat is thrown into an inn
monse copper vessel where it is rendered
into lard by means of steam, the sausage
meat is collected in tubs and tie feet and
heads are prepared for pickle. The
CHAINS" and '.sides" are shot down an in
cline to the first floor where they are
salted and removed 10 4 convenient three
story smoke house to be cured. After
being cured they are put up in canvas
bag, and are ready for shipment.
All OF the swill from the Somerset Dali
ry Company's factory opposite the u. &
O. station Is conveyed tothe slaughter
house where it il fed 10 the hogs. i coal
mine is located only rod from the build
ing from which fuel il obtained to drive
the machinery.
Mr.. George II. Love, the president OF
the company, is confident that the Union
Provision Company viii soon develop 20
the dignity Of some Of is Chicago rivals.
Meanw hile he has opened up new bus
iness in this community and will make
the raising Of hogs profitable for our far
mers.