The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-03-13

over SplendlQ Walk maze OF
cinders we next went to the packing
houses and guide, dressed in a
long white robe, conducted us
through the buildings. We first
went through Armour's, but this
packery was not near so well COM
pleted as Swift's. Both packeries
are situated close by each other and
through cooling rooms as cool as the
/ Arctic regions we were led up one
stairway after another till we reach
cd the eighth story, and away up
here is situated the powerful engines
that run the whole business and up
here the slaughtering begins; hogs
and cattle are run from the stock
pens, where we first inspected the
| fine stock, into out-shutes and they
meander around up the shutes nearly
quarter of a mile with drivers be-
hind them whooping and halloawing
to make them go into pens up here;
the hogs to the left and cattle to the
right into close pen. A chain is
fastened to the hogs leg and he is at
once drawn into the air and as he
| goes IA stout man with a long keen
knife sticks each animal in the
throat. One end of the chain is
fastened to a big wheel and with the
motion of this wheel the hog is set
! in motion, whirled into an immense
| vat full of hot water; men stand by
with prods and keep the hog under
hot water until the hair slips. They
are then run through an immense
cylinder thirty feet high lined with
knives on springs and a single trip
through this cylinder almost cleans
all the hair off them. fhey are then
thrown onto a moving table, one
after another as they come and one
man with some kind Of a machine rubs
off what hair NAV be left by the
knives in the cylinder and they are
being washed all the time One fell
low takes a few ticks at his head and
he is ally moved to where he
is gamboled, hung up and the en-
trails taken out. No one man does
much TO his carcass but by the time
he reaches the cooling room he is as
clean as water will make him. After
being weighed just before reaching
the cooling room, he is kept there
until thoroughly cold and from the
cooling room is carried on the
shoulders of men just a few yards
to the cars. He is gradual work. ed
down from where be Is killed by
machinery To the cars and shipped
out To feed the world
In slaughtering cattle a man with
! a mallet strikes beef In the head /;
he instantly drops to the floor. then
door at the side of the box flies
open and the steer rolls into the
slaughter room, a chain is fastened
to his hind leg; by an electric crane
overhead he is pulled up, head
swung from a pulley running on a
steel track and a strong man with a
keen blade thrusts it into his throat,
pretty soon thereafter another knife
In the hands of another man cuts of
his head almost at one lick and that
head Is skinned almost as quick as
you can think about 1t, then the beef
begins 10 move and one expert after
another strikes at him as he moves.
He is skinned and the entrails taken
out before you know 1t, and then
another expert with a big cleaver
splits the back bone half into until
each quarter of the beef weighs with
In q few ounces the same. This
beef Is like the hog, being washed all
the time until he finally lands in the
cooling room and worked down to
the cars as cold as ice can make
him. Now the question is, what be-
comes of all this offal. They used
TO lose nothing but the squeal of
the hog, but now they say they
blow the whistle with that. Every
part OF both hog and COW Will be
used to profit.
sOMEoF THE BY-pRoDUCTs.
To give some idea of what will be
done at the plants when everything
Is in complete running order, the
following list of by-products which
will be manufactured at Armour d
Co.'s plant Is gwen.
The bones of the feet of slaughter
ed animals will be cleaned thoroughly
of every particle of flesh and then
shipped 10 manufacturers Of tooth
brushes, knives, piano keys or any
where hard bones capable OF taking
high polish are in demand. The
knuekles of the bones viii be used
In making glue, and when used a.
far as possible for that purpose will
finally be made into fertiliser.
The horns will be split and pressed
into fiat plates. Manufacturer OF
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