The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-08

ter how the price of steaks may rise
and fall, the business could not be con-
Quoted as it is proftably were it not
for the by-products. In the use of
these Chicago houses are supreme.
From a twelve hundred pound native
steer are obtained the following: Two
ribs, 165 pounds; two loins, lis; two
rounds, 165; two chucks, 1923; two
plates, 113; four shanks, As; two TANKS,
"a; suet, %; two kidneys, 2; tongue,
5; hides, IS; cleo oil, $50; oleo sterine,
1920 tallow. 5.21; cattle hair, II; glue.
1856; cheek meat, 5; brains, 5; OK lips,
L; heart, 3,5; liver, 10; tail, lbs; sweet
breads, 2; medicinal glands 06; tripe,
8; casing. 81; fertilizer, 24.75; hoofs,
LIS; Sims, 1.5; neatsfoot oil, l; butter
stock, 1.25; raw bone, 10; horns, rs;
albumen (blood), 1.20; total, S81. 80
pounds. These figures are said by in
dependent packers to be extremely con-
sentative. The following uses of the
several parts enumerated are given by
the packers.
From the hides, leather of many
kinds; from the tallow, soap, glycerin,
butterine, lubricator, and candles; from
the blood. albumen, fertilizer and stock
foods; from the tanktage in
cludes all manner of "refuse'-ferti-
lizer and stock foods; from the hoofs
buttons, hair pins, fertilizers, ciniate
of potash for extracting metal from
low grade ores, glue and other fancy
bone goods; from the cleo, oil, butter
inc and compound lard; from the in
testines, sausage castings, gutskin for
gold beating purposes; from the wea-
sands, sausage castings, brewers hose
and snufi packages; from the bladder
casing and packages for putty lard and
Snu1; from the tail, hair ma ttresses
and upholstering; from the bones, but
tons, blue, handles, and fancy goods:
from the neatsfoot, oil polish, leather
dressing. lubricant and illuminant;
from the bone meal stock food, fer
tflizer, material for tempering steel an
hydrous ammonia and glue. The
tongue, cheek, brain. lips, heart, liver,
tail, sweetbreads and tripe are all sold
for meat. There is nothing wasted
but the water that boils out in the va
rious cooking processes, and even that
serves its purposes in the operation.
From the hog an equally large pro-
portion of useful substances is obtain
ed, and the sheep, too, gives more than
seventy of his hundred pounds weight
back in serviceable commodities
l have listed here the dealings of only
one of the packing town firms, and that
not the largest. The aggregate pack
ing houses adjacent to the stockyards
shipped away from Chicago last year
more than billion pounds of dressed
beer and half million pounds of lard.
100000 barrels of mess pork, 500 900
pounds of other pork meats. They
packed 1,724,776- cattle and nearly s.
900 hogs. Their stock of sugar
cured hams on hand from day to day
ran from 20,000,000 to so 900. 600. even
going at times above the latter figure.
In fact the Chicago packing houses
feed not only America but the world
Shut them for single day. close and
bolt the doors of the great refrigera-
tors. stop the procession of blooded and
handsome wagons that march toward
the retail shops, and hold back for
twenty-four hours the fast meat ex-
presses that run on the swiftest pas
senger schedule between Chicago and
the East. and from seaboard to sea
board a roar of indignation would go
up. Prices would advance with a lean
that would quickly cut off the supply
from the wage Garner. Supplies would
be exhausted in a day in the smaller
towns, and i'm almost as short a time
in the largest cities: soon an the coun-
try would be begging for Chicago
dressed beef In their inception the
Chicago packing houses were merely
money making concerns rendered nee
essary for the convenience OF the Chi
Cago market But to-day their sud
den closing would be one 81 the fnost
terrible Of national calnmifies: IL would
produce q general famine boo the United
States. 4ohn Swain.