The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-25
USES OF BLOOD.
MANY WAYS IN WHICH THE
VITAL FLUID is UTILIZED.
Scandinavians In the Northwest and
Packing Houses Save Every Drop
ofAnimal Biood-Beneficial
to Consumptives.
MONG the residents of "Lit.
\ tie Scandinavia" which in
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~ cludes two or three Of the
counties in Northern Wis.
consin, where the Swedes, Norwegians
and Danes have settled in great num-
bers, butchering week each fall is one
of the busiest and merriest times of
the whole year. The entire family
mother, father and children-have a
hand il the work, and, says the Chi
cago Record, they are frequently as.
sisted by the nearest neighbors, who
sometimes come three or four miles
across the hills. Butchering with the
Scandinavians means the saving and
utilization of every part of the beef
or hog which has the smallest value.
Even the blood is preserved, and it
appears later in the winter, when the
thermometer is down below zero and
supplies are short, in the form of
blood pudding or blood cake, both of
which are nourishing rs we'll as tooth
some dishes. The preparation Of
these compounds is entirely the work
OF the women and the smaller chill.
dIon. AS soon as the men are ready
to begin the work Of killing the
mother comes out with her hands full
Of pans and pals, and the boys and
girls follow with little wisps Of brooms
or twigs bound up in neat
bundles. The blood of the animal is
caught in the pans and the children
are soon at work stirring it with the
twigs in order to keep the iibrin from
collecting in clots. Many little arm
grows weary before the mother says
that the blood has been sufficiently
stirred and the pans are borne into the
house. Here quantity of rye meal
is added and the stirring is resumed
until the mass is thoroughly mixed
and of the consistency of dough. Salt,
pepper and sage are sprinkled over
the combination and 1t is set aside to
freeze. In cooking it the cake is
sliced up and fried Oh hot griddle
with ham or pork. In taste it resem-
bles sausage, but the flavor is said to
be much finer. Sometimes pieces of
scrap meat are mixed in with the blood
and the combination is then called
blood sausage. When enough meal
las been added the pudding can be
dried until it becomes rs hard rs stone
and in that form it will keep in l.ood
condition for an almost unlimited
time.
But this use of blood is only one OF
long list, a list that is increasing all
the time. Not drop of blood is vast.
cd by any of the big packing houses.
and It's manufacture into fertilizers
has become II profitable Industry. Ar.
mour II Co. alone turn out from eight
to twelve tons every day, and it has a
market value of from S32 to Si5 ton,
according to the amount OF ammonia
which it contains.
The product is incloscd in nir-tight
compartments until it is ready for
mixing with potash and phosphoric
acid to make complete fertilizer. 1t
Is chiefly valuable for the large amount
of nitrogen which it contains in the
form of ammonia. Nitrogen is one of
the most necessary parts of plant food
and must play an important part in
every complete fertilizer Ordinary
blood contains about seventeen per
cent. of ammonia aud of this about
l3 per cent. is pure nitrogen. The
fertilizers made ut the stock yards by
the big packing houses from blood
and ground bones are shipped ull over
the world.
Blood also plays an important part
in the manufacture of sugar. As it
comes from the slaughter-pen it is
dried at u low -temperature-un der
ITO degrees-In order to prevent the
coagulation of the albumen. The
process is long and tedious, and when
1t is finally completed the product is
in the form of big Cakes. When it
reaches the sugar reiineries it is dis
solved in warm water and added to the
liquid sugar Ms n clariier. The al
bumen takes hold of all the floating
particles in the sugar and carries
them to the bottom of the tank, very
much as egg albumen settles coffee
and on exactly the same principle.
AS a medicine, blood is just coming
into general nse. Delibrinated blood
is kept now at nearly all drug stores,
and many physicians prescribe ii III
cases where the patients blood is
"thin, or, in other words, lacks the
necessary amount of red corpuscies.
The preparation of defibrinated blood
is simple. The warm blood is caught
in pans as it comes from the animal,
and boys with bundle of twigs whip
it rapidly until all the iibriu clings tc
the wood, when it is taken out and
thrown away. The remaining com
ponents OF the blood, the albumer
and the serum, are then dried hard nj
a temperature not exceeding 105 de
grees, The mass which remains is Gu,
up and rolled into little pills, which
bring the roses back To the cheeks o.
many faded woman by increasing the
oxyGen-carrying power OF their blood
Blood is used for various other pur
poses. Many woman who is wearing
dLr-, rich.colored buttons on hel
dress, would be surprised if she knew
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