Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-01
BIG ] POULTRY Center
Marshalltown a Splendid Market
For the Fowls Of the Farm.
Ing Community.
About 2.OoO.0OO Pounds Slaush-
tered and Shipped During
the Holidays.
Two Firms Ship 100000 For the
Holiday Trade--.Good
Prices Paid.

to look back upon in the year that has
just been brought to a close, and still
many more to look forward to for the
new year which it hopes to see real
lied by this time next year. The city's
business has grown in almost every
during 1901, its population has mater
tally increased. new additions, already
thickly settled, have been taken into
the city, new business enterprises have
Esprung up, both wholesale and retail.
new factories are in prospect, n mer-
chants have just brought to a close the
biggest holiday business ever done-in
fact, the year 1901 was satisfactory in
many respects.
The world wasn't made in a day, and
1t takes time to bring about the many
things that are desired on the part OF
any city, but by New Years day a
year hence Marshalltown will expect
to have even more to look back upon.
1t will hope to have a new public IL
brary building, a new railway pas
senger station, additional street car
trackage and facilities, which are
planned for mex summer, plans more
definitely shaped for a government
building, a new pottery plant in active
operation, q paid fire department
many other enterprises in a business
way that are being figured on, with
prospects good for securing them.
Marshalltown, as a market center,
was v greater than 1t is today, and
but comparatively few, excepting
those engaged in the different lines
themselves, realize the volume OF
business done. Altho the factory OF
the Glucose Sugar Refining Company
is not in active operation at present,
lit is buying corr and shipping 1t In
carload lots to other points. There Is
always an excellent market for hogs
and the packing hous of Britain q
offers an inducement for ship
pers from many miles In every d.
Irection. AS d buggy center Marshall
town lis known over the entire country,
and for furnaces and other articles of
manufactured machinery the name
Lennox has a worldwide reputation.
|Ruilding iron and bridge material is
sought after in Marshaltown from all
portions of the great northwest, n
lis contracted here for many of the
large buildings and bridges that are
being erected here and there. The
Fisher Governor Company's articles
are known everywhere, even IN FOR
[eign countries. and Marshalltown
MARSHALL county canned goods find a
market in every section of the country.
In a wholesale grocery way there is
probably no city of Marshalltowns
size. SO we'll known as this, the
HEADQUARTERS of n of the largest
grocery combines of h country-the
western Grocer Company. There is
lalso a wire mat, that, within the past
wear, has become universally used, even
by the government, which is using
them on war vessels.
One Of the greatest lines In which
lMarshalltown has increased as a a
jket center during the past year has
been in the poultry business. Both
Armour & Co. and Swift & CO.
have established branch houses
here. and both are doing business on an
extensive scale-so extensive. In fact,
that one can only grasp the magni-
Itude OF it unless seeing for himself.
II is doubtful If many Marshalltown
people know that right in their own
city is packed thousands upon thous-
ands of pounds of turkeys and chickens
that are shipped to Liverpool n
London. Such, however. is a fact.
The farmers wife doesn't think, when
she is sorting out her chickens n
turkeys for the market, that In
a few weeks they will be gracing the
table of some English lord. Neither
do the birds themselves, for they don't
have time to think, after once they are.
inside the walls of these big poultry
packing plants. Sixty men are en-
ployed in these two institutions pick
ing, packing and sorting the birds for
home and foreign shipment. Every
bird that goes to Liverpool is wrapped
separately in white paper. The trade
there demands 1t, and it is done, v
lie 1t is a little more work. In London
this is not required and only the a
are wrapped. The boxes, all of which
contain but twelve birds each. are
packed differently. Those for Liv-
erpool are laid put straight, but those
for the London market are roasted"
or, have their feet lying fiat against
them. similar to the position taken
when roosting. all the feet being at
the bottom of the box. All of the
London and Liverpool trade is sold by
the dozen, and not by the pound, as
in this country. The heads and feet
are carefully cleaned of all blood n
dirt, for in England feet and all are
roasted, nothing being cut off except
the %toenails.
During the past few weeks. or for the
holiday trade. there have been killed
in these two institutions 1,923,000
pounds Of poultry, largely chickens and
turkeys. Estimating one half of this
number chickens and the other half
turkeys, and taking the average used.
four pounds to a chicken n seven to a
turkey, there were slaughtered In
Marshalltown approximately 240.375
chickens and 1895 turkeys during the
past few weeks. This ratio is not ex-
actly according to what the facts bear.
out, for there were more chickens
killed than turkeys, n of the firms
alone reporting 100000 pounds of
chickens killed and dressed, as against
2S5, 900 pounds of turkeys.
Even these large figures do not
begin to show the amount of BUSH
Eess done. That is figuring nothing for
geese or ducks, most of which are sent
to Chicago alive, and killed there, altho
one of the firms dressed $4,000 pounds
here. Neither does 1t how what busi-
ness has been handled in, Marshalltown
from outside points. Armour & Co. alone
have handled here since Nov. / over