The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-01-23
A PROMISING INpusrsY.
a Packing House for the Purpose o; Pro-
pairing Meat for Market Started
UD Monday

/ Monday, Mr.. George II. Love, of the
Somerset Dairy Company, set the wheels
OF a new industry in molten. whicf,
! promises in short time to bald up q
prosperous business for Somerset. aud
one which may in the course OF time give
! employment to large force of men,
The industry referred 10 IS nothing
more or less than packing house, with a
capacity 10 slaughter and dress - hogs
! per day. Asa matter of coarse the pack
ing house is now only i'm AN experimental
stage, hat Mr.. Loves well-known ability
io hustle" when he takes hold OF any
thing gives color to the belief that he has
undertaken to build up an industry of
large proportions in this community.
There Is no good reason why packing
establishment should not be conducted on
a large scale in Somerset. For years past
Somerset county has been one of the
principal stock growing counties in Penn
syivania, and during recent years NUM-
! Der Of farmers have turned their atten-
tion 10 raising hogs for market. Nearly
all of oar farmers agree that handsome
profit is to be made out of raising cattle.
sheep and hogs for the city market.
where they come into competition with
the meats from western packing houses.
If profit is to be made when stock has
10 he transported in a live state to the
market, IS it not reasonable 70 suppose
that larger profits viii result from slaugh-
tering them at home and shipping the
dressed meat? Mr.. Love thinks 50, At
least. and as a result OF his thinking 50 he
has decided to test the matter.
About two years ago Mr.. Love had a
pipe line constructed, connecting his
creamery, opposite the Somerset & Cam
bria Il. II. station, with his barn on the
brow Of coal hill,' distance OF perhaps
800 yards. Through this pipe all of the
surplus milk and butter-milk accumu-
laiing in the creamery-which other's iSe
would 90 to waste-is driven by steam to
the barn, where ii is isdepositel in a system
Of trogghs and IS subsequently fed 10 a
large number OF hogs.
Recently Mr.. Love concluded that it
would be more profitable for his company
to sell the dressed meat Of the hogs raised
than it would be to ship them alive
70 market, and with this object in
view he set uDout baildiug packing
house on a small scale.
The slaughter house as arranged nj
present contains a number of pens into
which the hogs are driven aud separated.
When they nave been assorted, "a single
animal is driven into particular pen,
where he Is stabbed and the next instant
l. plunged into tank OF boiling water
where he is :ickIed with big iron
rake unsii in a moment or two all OF me
bris,ols in his hide have become detached.
\ steel hook is attached to las hind legs
aud turn of crank elevates the sclided
aud hairless animal above tho water and
swiftly conveys him 5y means OF an
overhead track into an adjoining room,
where he is disemboweled and the meat
Is cleaniy washed. Another turn Of the
crank and Mr. Hog is stretched on auoth-
er table, where ne is cut up into hams, side
meat, etc, which are Immediately placed
in pickle. Alter remaining in pickle tie
required length Of time the meat viii be
removed to the smoke-house, where it
will be properly cared and prepared for
shipment. The choPpirs machine and
lard rcducers are operated by steam.
Everything about the entire establish
ment works with hnm.
Twenty-five hogs were slaughtered
Monday, and il Is expected that similar
number viii be killed each day hereafter.
II the business i found Is profitable rs
anticipated ii is more than lisely that the
capacity OF the establishment viii be in
creased and enlarged, when beef VIII also
be slaughtered and prepared for market.
The Somerset Dairy Company employ
a number OF travelling salesmel, ana as
their business brings them in contact with
grocers and butchers throughout the iast
il is probable that they will lind no diff
culty in the way Of establishing market
for the proGuct Of the packing house.
~ said before, the Love Packing
House is only in an experimental stage
nj this time, bst with the business energy
and capital at its command it is an enter
prise of great possibilities