Evening star., 1898-12-10

sent over 1.o0t miles of water to reach
: il. If sheep can understood and feel for
their fellows the killing u rather cruel.
Scnlt~ "f them look Oh awaiting their
turE while their brothers and sisters are
. L. trE"rrd Il each pen there were at least
fifty sheep. Along the front OF it on a
b"u"h about HigA as Your Knee lay rows
Ci dying sheep. each with two great round
t',' i'm its WlIta throat. out OF which the
i"'' hi""" ran down into The Strtgm Of
Vsf-l which flowed through p little canal
h-lr"- Som" Of the sheep Wrr" kicking,
"tH'is EroaHad fecbly. but | could see that
JElir deaths came almost insanity. Tie
HiEAS y cone with q Ions sharp d0Ahle-
blab-d knife Two mon catch sheep in
IN |"u and throw il upon lis back on the
b'h'A III, butcher outside then sciZos il
Ly III" chin, bends its head back and with
On" thrust drives the steel through its
: throat cutting the iuguIar vein. He then
goes on 10 the next sheep. which is al
? 1.ldy lying there ready for him. killing
Shrtp alrtr sheep at the rate OF one ana
MOI" Per minute.
As soon as the sheep has been knitted it
Is s-Iz / and carefully skinned The en-
/ lIaliS ar" thrown into one place to be
cleaned and shipped to Germany for sau-
sage skins. The kidneys and their fat are
laid in another, for the kidney fat is used
b Tor making sort Of Oleumargarinc which
Is here largely sold for cooking. and the
kIdH' " go TO tn markets Of BuenUs Ayres
ne feet and heads are cut off and the
tongues and hearts are saved. The carcass
when Is left is as neatly cleaned as aEy
You viii see on our best meat markets at
NJ me- II Is dressed after the fashion Of
( the English markets. a matter so important
that the factory has skilled London mar
kct man here to supcrintend this feature Of
! the work.
Freezing the Carcasses.
The freezing is done in great chambers
/ each Of which Will hold G0.0oo car
casses at one time. The chambers have
walls of wood and sawdust a foot thick.
| The ceiling of each is covered with
coils Of pipe, in which flow ammonia
( ard brine SO arranged chemically that they
| I'll the room with air which is 80 degrees
/ b".Ow zero. 1t takes three great engines to
/ keep The pipes filled, and these work on
/ both day and night. The coils, when l saw
/ them, Were covered with frost an inch
I thick, and the chamber intensely cold.
/ In i. hanging down from hooks with their
| h adiess uccks toward the floor, were some
/ thing like a thousand freezing carcass.s of
| mutton. They were almost ready for ship
I neAt, and when the chief engineer who
! acted as my guide took one down to show
/ II 10 me found that il would stand alone
( and that its flesh as hard as stona
/ within f"Ity-right hours after being put in
( the freezing room the carcasscs are per-
/ ftctiy hard After they are frozen they are
scwed up in fin- white muslin cloths and
! IaId away III cold storage TO await the next
steamer. The average carcass weighs when
/ Shlpptdirom twenty to seventy pounds. Tha
/ Si.c"p cost about 81 dpi zee. as only the
/ finest used for this purpose. sheen as
/ they run in the flock, can be bought | am
: told, for from fifty TO S-Vcnty-tiYe cents
/ apiece The freight to London costs from
! enc To TWO cents a pound and the mutton
| there sells for ten cents and upward per
/ pound. As much of the work as possible
| Is done by machinery, but the wages paid
| are much less than AT home. The average
| for slaughterors. skinners and general
| Workmcn is less than 81 10 q day. and fore
| men receive less than 81 per day. | Won
! der how cur Chicago butchers would like
! such wages?
Everything connected with the refuse
/ Nith the exception Cf the blood. is SOLD The
| hoois are used for making glycerine, the
| shlh bones for knife handles. buttons and
! combs, and some Of the entrails form cat
| gut for fiddle strings. The sheepskirs are
| dried and sold in bales, and the tongues
| ana hearts are frozen for export. In this
! same factory partridgcs and pheasantS
! chickens, turkeys. ducks fish and armadil-
| los are frozen for shipment to Europe
! In the Wool Market.
Leaving the frozen meat factory. I drove
| to the Mercado Central des Frutos This
/ is the great central market of B0enos
! Ay1es, where wool, hides and grain are sold
| in Wholesale lots. 1t IS the largest produce
| market of TIE world under one roof 1t
| covers many acres, ard millions OF pounds
| of wool are handled in it every year. 1t is
| brick building Of three stories lying near
| the docks on the Ricachuelc river, in that
| part of Buenos Ayres called Barracas Bar
I racas means warehouses and BARRACKS is
! the part of Buenos Ayres where the great
| export business of the Argentine is done
! The wool and hides are taken from the
| market house to the warehouses and there
| prepared for shipment. At shearins time
! wool comes in in train and ship loads
| There are scarcely enough ears to haul the
crop and the vast market house is so full
| that You can hardly get through it. It's
three floors are packed with stacks Of dirty,
| greasy wool. Carts and wagons loaded with
| wool obstrIct all other traffic, boats of wool
| are being unloaded in the river with steam
| cranes. and the cars are run right into the
! market itself Each mans wool is put in
! pile by itself. 1t is taken out OF the bales
| and left loose in a stack. that the buyers
! can easily examine il. The shippers tell me
that the WOO. crosses tho ocean better in