Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-22
A MODERN PLANT
Cleanliness the Cardinal Principal
of the Company.
New Establishment of the Burlington
Rendering Company on North
Avenue Now in Operation
Fifty Men TO he Employed.

| we'll located in It's new plant OH North
avenue and the machinery has been in
operation for several days. While the
plant is not the largest in the East it is
the most modern and best equipped and IL
| Visit to 1t gives one an idea of the bust
| ness such as they cannot obtain in any
other manner. The cardinal principal Of
the company is cleanliness and immense
quantities of hot water and steam are
used throughout the entire building every
| DAY for that purpose alone so that Wis
! itor can go through the plant at any time
| without finding evidences of dirt and
| grease except in the kettles and reposi-
| tories that are designed for it. a Free
| Press reporter was conducted though the
establishment yesterday by the genial
manager, H. c. Carter, who recently came
| TO Burlington to take charge of the bust
| ness. Mr.. Garter has been virtually
| brought up in the business and the man
! ner in which he explains II IS so thorough
that one cannot fail to understand the
processes after visit to the plant
The plant is located adjacent to the line
/ of the Rutland railroad and consists of
a building 800 feet long. three stories high
and basement. 1t is divided into five
/ distinct parts, rendering plant, oil depart
/ ment hide and calf skin department, fer
tilizer and slaughtering department In
| connection with the plant large hide
business is conducted and for that branch
It new building 80 feet long will soon be
| erected.
The plant receives its products from
| Vermont and northern New York and
/ they arc brought direct TO the plant by
train. 1t was feared by many that there
would be an Objectionable odor in con-
nection with the plant but deodorzers
and a system to do away with any objec-
tonable feature of that kind have been
| arranged so that the air about the plant
is sweet and clean.
4 Tho nj depa ri mont has a norton of the
! building by itself. The fresh suet. from
which the oil is made is taken to the top
floor and when it reaches the basement
it is the refined product, ready for the
market. Tho products of this department
are oleo oil and stearine. Only fresh suet
is used for the purpose. The suets are
hashed in a machine for the purpose ana
are then conveyed to a vat for thorough
! cleansing, and thence to the cooker. Al
ter being thoroughly cooked the suet is
| taken from the kettle and placed in lay
| ers in a press Of high power. The big
press is lowered and the oil is squeezed
from the product, running through pipe
! to the floors below where it is barrelled
for tho market The product that is LETT
in the press is stearine and is pure white
Everything in this department is as
clean as wax. Hot steam is used to clean
the machines and innumerahlc towels are
used. The floors slant to the center and
are thoroughly washed the refuse being
taken of by cutters arranged for the pur-
pose The floors are flooded daily and
scrubbed until they fairly shine
On the ground floor of the portion or
the building devoted to the oil depart
ment is shipping and receiving room.
from which entrance is had to the office.
The rendering plant which occupies
the greater part of the building, disposes
of all kinds of waste materials IN ANNA!
form. 1t may seem strange that an old
but in that establishment such an animal
will be humanely killed and then every
scrap Of its body. not even a hair going
TO waste will be made into some market.
able product. The company has several
teams at work throughout the city gain
ering slp waste material, one OF them be-
ing a horse hearse, into which dead AMI.
mails can be loaded with ease and still
he obscured from the view of people as
they pass the team.
In one portion of The building are three
large digestors. Into these digestors the
products are turned and mixed with wa
ter. after which they are tightly closed
and steam turned on. The steam passes
through the product until everything that
ran Dossiblv be melted becomes liquid
The digeStors extend from the TOP 10
the ground floor and when the product
has been thoroughly steamed the grease
is drawn off in pipes 20 huge tanks made
grease is again pumped into orutchers'
where the final process takes place.
The tarkage and grease water from the
digestors is dropped into 4 vat oeiow
and what valuable grease is left is skim
med the grease water is then conducten
by pipes to the basement ana hnallF 10
ovaporators where it is made into mo-
las.es substance that eventually becomes
a component part of fertilizers.
The tankage is shoVeled into cars ana
carried to $50 ton press. where the grease
is all pressed out. The grease water above
referred to was the substance that many
thought would be conveyed to the lake
and contaminatc the water but it is too
valuable to loose. Everything that goes
into the rendering plant comes out OF It
in some form that is salable.
In the room where the digestors are To-
Gated are open kettles where better
grade of products is made.
The bones brought to the plant are all
sorted and used for various purposes.
There are kettles for boiling them and
these are all hooded SO that any ofor
Is carried away and is diSinfected %!
steam and passes out of the chimney
that rises above the boiler house
An immense amount of soft soap Is
used in the plant for cleaning purposes
and a portion Of the floor space Is dc
voted to the kettles for making the soap
In one room is a sharp cutter the blE
knife being run by machinery. Beneath
this cutter the bones and other products
are cut and passed on to the grinders
whore they are reduced to dust, which
lis valuable for fertilizers.
The plant is provided with a cooper
shop. where repairs to the Immense num-
her of barrels used can be made In tho
basement Of the plant is located the drier
for the tankage.
One Of the features Of tho building
is the slaughter house. This can No used
hv the butchers of the city or the Rem
derng company will kill the cattle for
them 1t is equipped with everything
that can possibly he needed and butcher
ing is reduced to science. In addition
to the large slaughter house another
room has been fitted up, entirely separate
where sick and crippled animals are dis
posed of These slaughter houses are
kept absolutely clean. being thoroushlN
cleansed after each operation. The blood
is all carried away and later used for
fertilizers.
The entire plant is lighted by electricity
end heated by steam. Miles Of pipes have
been laid through the building, carryinr
both steam and hot water A series Of L
. Dumps carry the different products from
one machine to another so that there Is
no waste The engine room contains ar
electric dynamo from which the lights are
furnished The building is well supplied
with lockers for the use of the men and
everything is arranged for their CON
venicnce and the prompt despatch ot
work
The principal products Of the factory
ora o,eo oil nrine rendered tallOw and