The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-11-12

.lear idea OF the enormous amount o
money saved and made by the ,utiliza
lions Of the portions Of the animal
.lsughtered there which cannot b,
used for food. The late Philip D
Armour was very PRACTICAL man an,
always did business upon the basis O
poor Richards adage, that "a penn,
saved is penny earned" The re
sult of this policy is shown in the
vast area occupied by the several fac
tories operated by his firm and Others
IN the same business FOR the manu-
f.cture Of hundreds Of useful articles
from those parts Of the steers, sheep
and hogs that were formerly thrown
away.
In the earlier days Of the industry
the hide, tallow and grease were used
hut the blood, feet, head and offal
we're puried or hauled out on the prai.
! res and dumped. The horns finally
4 became Of some value, and after the
horn pitch was removed they were
& shipped to Europe and there mann
4 featured into horn buttons, combs and
various ornaments; but no manufac-
4 turing of this sort was attempted in
4 the United States until within the
a last twenty years. About the first
j use made of the offal at Chicago was
i in the latter part Of the 70s, when a
q small blue manufacturing plant was
4 established near Ashland avenue on
4 the river. There was no attempt to
= buy material from the packers, but
4 the story goes that the cattle heads
4 and feet from the trenches in which
j they were buried by the packers dur
4 iug the day would be dug up at night.
} hauled to the glue factory and con-
4 verted into glue and bone fertilizer.
4 Soon after this packers found out
q that the material had some value and
q began to charge for it. In the mean
Y time quite an industry had been built
z up in the manufacture of glue, and in
the year 1885 Armour 6 Co. purchas-
u ed the Wahi Brothers glue factory.
q This was the first entrance Of the
packers into the manufacture Of Clues.
B Tbe industry has grown rapidly, and
4 Armour & Co., having the largest glue
i plant in the world, not only use all
the raw material furnished by their
own packing-houses, but also buy
54srgely from all the smaller packers.
They manufacture several kinds Of
glue. The phosphate Of lime in bone
Up held together by heterogeneous ma.
eerial which can be taken out Of the
P0ne by cooking for long time at low
Temperature and the glue is taken out.
s. After the glue is extracted it is, con-
fen!rated in vacuum, chilled by re-
fngeration, cut up into thin layers,
dried on wire screening in large hot
}r dryers and sold as sheet glue,
broken glue OF ground glue, as the
3rade may demand. The diamond
g2hape marks on sheet glue come from
he wires on which the glue is dried
81 fhile in a plastic condition. During
he process Of glue boiling the tallow
: 81 @nd grease are extracted and skinned
ah, and the honey and meaty matter
dried, ground up and sold as fortili-
er' 1t contains certain proportions
nitrogen and phosphorus, combined
9llh phosphate Of lime.
Gelatin Is made from selected calves
81 lock and is very carefully manufac-
afed' the process being somewhat
nllar to that used in the making Of
ue.
lslnglass made from animal tissues
used by brewers in the clarifying Of
nelr liquors. It is transparent
3 n'.e 10 article sold in sheets, and re-
zf fnDles the finest grades Of gelatin in
Dpearance.
1t may be said that in the fertilizer
@austry Armour C Go. were pioneers.
the early sos, Peruvian being very
sn and demand having arisen for
Snmercial fe.tilizers, it was suggest
@ mat the meaty and honey material
posted in the bottom Of large tanks
sa In rendering lard and tallow be
'sd and used as a source Of nitrogen
c0mpounding fertilizers, mixing
'n !, them the ac:d phosphate made.
S 0i'solying South Carolina rock
P0sphate with acid. A hot dryer
\ designed, and that was the begin
as Of the fertilizer Industry in Chi.
AZ the same time the blood accumu-
uns from the killing Of cattle, boil
~ coagulate the albumen and dried
''sam dryers was also used as fer
1ef' the entire output for number
years being shipnad In Naw Vol,