Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-06-29
ey.PRODUCTS OF MEAT PACKERS.
Tbs Uses to Which the Former WASTE e
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The great Chicago packing horses
get q great deal more money fo- tbs
by-products incidents. 20 the killing
Of a steer than she meat sells for. On
the average the meat and its com
pounds bring $40, while the by-pro-
ducts bring at wholesale $50. The
latter sum is roughly made up as fol
lows: Hide. horns. hoofs and hair, s2o'
fats. blood, sinews and hnnes, 49,
miscellaneous other wastes, SIS.
Il is only III The large and weil-ap-
pointed sleughter-houses that the full
value nf The animals dealt with an be
realized, and these become. factories
for 4 great many products. besides
6ndipt the proper and most profitable
frarkets for each of the raw products
into which they separate the animals
Nothing is alioWed TO go to waste.
and ton years ago one Of the largest
butchers in this city declared that the
Chicago packers were paving the en-
tIr" cost Of Strengthening cattle out OF
what the butchers here were paying
70 hcTe carted away, Hides, horns.
i4coiS hlid Il Ia udu tuCil Ald Nets
for many years and their value in
rreases steadily. This is particularly
true of horns. for the practice of de
horning cattle has become so general
that in n great Chicago packing
house, IL was found during a two-year
count that the eturns only showed
one horn to every three hullocks.
Horns are now worth about $3.50 a
ton. The hides 60 to the tanner. the
hair for mixing mortar. The tails
don't go WITH the hides. Down at the
tip is some long hair, and this is sold
10 be turned into curled hair for up
holstertng.
u the hoofs are pure white they have
a peculiar value. They are sent TO
China for jewelry making. Those
which are striped. black or damaged
go into the kettle to he boiled for glue
and the residue made into hoof meal.
O valuable fertilizer. In fact. every
thing which is not used for other pur-
poses Is ct last turned INTO some form
Of fertilizer. even to the tankage water
n which the Coarsest of the refuse is
boiled to extract its fats. The coarse
bones are either ~carbonized and sold
for sugar rcfinerS' use or turned lntO
fertilizers. and the blood is mostly
dried and turned into another aid to
aCriclliturr, Some of the blood is sold
IN LIQUID form to sugar retinerieS. but
moi 3 great deal. The white bones
suitable for knife handles and such
purposes bring from so to 500 a ton
and 90 mostly t. Germany.
The main D3rtS of the animal rs
they are sent to markets are carefully
trimmed. but there is no piece Of good
meat but has its market. Tongues
and tails ere regular articles Of COM
merre. and eve the meat from the
checks is added to the supply for sau-
pickeled. Each character Of fat is
separated from the others and finally
these are marketed in the various
forms of meats foot oil. cleo oil. tfllow
and stearine and oleomargerine. Be
fore +" horns arc sold the pith is
extracted from them and the finest
grade Of Gclatinc is obtained from the
pith.
The sinews are all separated to be
| used for glue stock. the bladders are
sold for holding snuff and the greater
part Of tho iuteStines are used for
sausage castings. Parts OF these have.
however. a special use and value. and
are sold separately TO be made up into
goldbeltpr s skins. The lining of the
Windpipc is also of particular value.
being used for q fancy sausage casing
and also for a lining for pipes. through
which beer is passed in ~brewerieS.
Beet extract. pepsin and many other
things arc made in some of the biggest
houses.
\ new use has recently been dis
covered for tho contents Of tho paunch.
which until lately had to be thrown
away. 1t has been discovered that =
good quality of cardboard can be made
II II AID is now being saved for that
purpose. OF course. the large receipts
from these by products are not all pro
lit. but there IS n manufacturers profit
mad" or1 Of each ono Of them which
aggrcCatcS q handsome sum. and ali
Of his helps 10 keep down tho price
OF tho fresh meats to the CONSUMER
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