Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-20
CONCERNING SAUSAGES.
Various Castings Used and Where
They Come From.
Thousands Of Men Engaged in Making Sau-
sages.-Some Receipts.

with hog, and with cattle castings.
said the agent of the beef company
''All the hog and cattle castings used in
this country in sausage making are
from animals raised here; the great
bulk of the sheep castings come from
various foreign countries; from Eng
land, and countries of Continental
Europe. and in smaller quantities from
Australia and New Zealand. Great
of sheep castings are i'm
ported, and on the other hand large
quantities of American hog and cattle
countries.
'Sheep castings, as they are put up
for sale to sausage makers, are in bun
dies containing 800 or 400 feet of cas-
ings. according to the calibre Millions
of bundles of such castings are sold an,
nually, which are used for frank
furters, wienerwurst and other small
sausagcs. These castings range in size
from half an inch to an inch in diam
eter and the sausage maker can get
any size he wants, and so make sau-
sages in practically any desired num-
Der to the pound, from six to 20.
The castings are first roughly sorted
as to size and they are then separate
ly blown up by an operator who in
fiateS them in lengths Of a few yards
at a time, the entire length of q sheep
casing being 80 or 100 feet The oper-
ator initiates only SO much of it as he
can observe and control; the imitation
being to grade the casing to size. and
to discover flaws, if any. The imper-
feet parts and the small ends are cut
out. not, however, to be thrown away;
but to be used in the manufacture of
strings for tennis rackets, in making
surgical ligatures. round belts for hol-
low-faced pulleys and parts of cotton
looms, and for violin strings. The per-
feet castings run in lengths of from 10
to 60 feet. the various sizes being sort
ed together with the greatest nicely.
Hog castings are larger, ana they
vary more in the individual animal
than sheep castings do; that is to say
the casing taken from a hog varies.
in its several parts or sections, dis
tinctlY. as to size ana as to thickness.
ana consequently as to availability for
the various purposes Of sausage max
ing. The thinneSt part of the hog cas-
ing is the one of the greatest length:
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