The Portland daily press., 1899-11-25
THE PIGS sQUEAL SAVED.
Economy of the Slaughter House
Allows Nothing to Go to Waste.
Death Agony Funny at
Church sociais-some Other Won
ders Of the killing and saving.
fRideeford Re,ori.l

all q mistake. Not eren the squeh is
lost nowadays. The gigantic estabiish-
ment of which Phil Armour Is the heid
is tco economical and thrifty to allow
ere, the sqrcAls Of hogs to 60 to waste.
No. slice. It's true as sosIei e-en the
sqGells are saved"
lie Record reporter locked mystifed as
9erse u. Harris, manager Of tie Bidds-
ford branch of the packing firm Of
A rn our & Co., made this statement to
him this morning. Mr.. HARM relieved
the tension by explaining:
1.-THE squsals are saved almost as care
fully as are the food products and the
blood and fertiiisins elements Of the hogs.
The company does not save the squeals.
although they are. In o sense, marketa BILE
commodities. Phonograph folks are the
ones who rescus the squeals from loss and
oblivion.
"Did 1t ever occur to you that the
soueal of pig is funny: We'll, 1t seems
20 be funny t, some people and they
laugh like the dickens when they hear It.
When they listen to q pig squealing In .
phonograph 1t sounds all the runn'er.
The squeais Of dying hogs are captured
on wax records by photograph experts
and are produced all over the country.
"Ths next time you attend church
entertainment and listen to funny pig
rquealing out OF talking machine, just
think Of the porker who was butchered
at Kansas City or Chicago to produce
that comical racket, and then laugh.
The old motto was that there Is nothing
lost but the squeal, but end OF the oen-
tury progress will not even allow a squeal
to go TO wasts.
"Did you know that ammonia Is
made out of bloodf" Mr.. Earrls asked the
reporter. "Fact. Anhydrous ammonia is
PR ducsd by a chemical process from the
lood shed at the abattoirs Of p. ID. Ar
mour and tho ammonia SO produced 10
used for freezing IL makes good
quality of anhydrous ammonia, and 10
utilized In ref igsIators. Any man VIII,
stops to think about IL will be surpr sod
10 learn that there Is ammonia In blood
In sufficient quantities. to make IL profit
able to extract It for the purpose Of taking
the place Of Ice.
"fhore Is albumsn In blood, and the
chemists In the big Armour laboratory
extract 1t and 10 Is shipped all over the
Isn't itf Mate rial In beef blood or hog
blood, or human blood for that nintter,
which may be used In dyeius cloth. This
aibumen derived from blood 10 used In
New England mills and print works In
large quantities. 1t Is Of such nature
that 1t is used In making colors indelible
In cloth.
ssThe Armour establishment 10 one OF
ii Q larg est and most completely organ
ICED wora ing places In the world. Not
bit Of refuse IL allowed to so to waste.
There il no refuse. What would be
thrown away 20 years ago as being value
less. is saved ana utilized for some prac-
teal pui pose. Just consider the things w
manufacture out Of the coarse refuse Of
the slaughter houses. Here are few Of
them. We make glue. OF them. We make
glue, said to be the finest quality In the
world. Glue Is u cattle product"
The Armour glue factory covers ten
acres and the plant IL the largest glue
shop In the world. The glue factory has
. floor arsa of 40 ncres, and the annual
output of CLUES IL 15,0oo,0o0 pounds
Glue Is used in manufacturing about
everything, from PENCILS to piows. Glue
Is used In the making of pspr, carpets,
and about every thing. They make CELIA
tine of q superior quality. Gelatine isa
product Of tender little calves and it has
to he pure and refined to be markstable.
obbeE Atbth Vuoto ssaiA a.
olude isinglass, sop, glycerine, am
monia, fertilizer, bone meal. poultry
foods, albumen, neatsfoot oil and U dozen
other kinds of articles
The Armour laboratory Is the largest
plant of Its kind In the world. IL 10 now
devoted entirely to the manufacture and
preparation Of psps'n, Dancreatin, thyroifs
and bone marrow. Extracts OF every
kind of food fish product are produced BY
the Armour company.
The hoofs are I'd into three grades
White hoots are sent to Japan and are
ornaments. Striped hoofs are worked up
by button manufacturers and black boofs
are used In the manufacture OF cyanide
of potassium for gold extraction and ara
also ground into fertilizer feT flor lists
uss and for grape growers.
The bones all have their uses. Bits OF
bones, skulls, jawbones and kuucklss are
deprived of the gelatine or glue products
contained In them. Ths residue Is
ground up and sold as bonemeal. When
the glue Is not extracted, the bones are
ground and called raw bonemeal. The
bonemeals are sold to formers In sections
of the country here the soil is clayey, and
the stuff is especially valuable as fertll-
izeT for wheat.
Horns are among the most valuable
products Of the abattoirs. They are sort
ed into various grades like the hoofs. and
are put into the market In many shapes.
The tip Is sawed of and the horn Is split
and pressed out into q hat plate under
heat aud pressure. These hornplates are
used In the manufacture of combs. backs
OF brushes, large buttons and articles In
which tortoiss shell and horn are used.
The tips are made into mouthpieces for
pipes. Even the scrapings from the
horns in the form Of dust 10 not wasted,
but Is carefully saved and used In fertil-
izsr.
The bones from the feet Ct the cattle are
usei in TIE manufaotare Of toothbrush
handles knife handles, ohessmen and In
any shape where ivory or oelluloid is
used. The knuokles forming these bones
are Ont of and the hard hone takes high
polish. Neatsfoot oil has q high CONNER
clAl value. 1t Is extracted from tie hoofs
and feet OF cattle Blood Ia used by sugar
refiners, tanners. by extract makers for
clarifying, by calico printers for fixing
oolors and by leather manufacturers.
Commercial fertilizers In every oonceiv-
able form. dried blood and other products
are noteworthy of the vast BUSINESS enter
prise Of which Armour Is the head.
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