The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-05-31


Louis, or Kansas City, from which
come the meat products which we
have on our tables? Not many. I
suspect the story OF what one sees
on his journey through one Of
these plants would be interesting, and
go will undertake to tell Of journey
q party took recently through the
packing house Of Swift & Company at
Kansas City. Swift's is one Of six
great plants engaged in the packing
industry out at the Kansas City
stockyards, and Is typical Of tho
rest.
Let me premise with SOM figures
which are Instructive, though hardly
aesthetic. The stock yards cover 16O
acres, of which AZ acres are under
roof. There are 5000 brick paved
cattle pens. The daily capacity is
$4,000 cattle, 35, 200 hogs and $4,000
sheep, or total of $4,000. And it
takes this full number to keep en-
gagged the six slaughter houses from
which o small relative proportion of
the American people get their meats.
But these figures will not Impress
you; figures are never really impress
sive. Come, then; so With US out
to that place of lowing cattle, bleat-
ing sheep, and squesliug hogs, and
most Of all, unprecedented odors,
and see if it is not novel and interest
ing.
Our guide was Howard, bright lad
Of IA. Howard first conducted us into
great room where lard products
were packed. Dozens of truckmen
moved the lard into the room, and
others pushed it into railway cars for
shipment. The next room was where
the "cured" hams and breakfas. bacon
were made ready for the market.
Girls with wonderful dexterity and
adroitness put the hams into the
sacks in which the consumer receive )
them, and sewed them up. Further
on another batch Of girls we're packing
sausage in little sacks.
From the third story we were next
taken through maze Of doors, down
dark stairways and passages, sufi-
cient utterly to confuse you, into the
great cellars, and there they were
picking the meats which are to be
canned. The warmth Of the day, en-
phasized in our feelings by endless
climbing up and down narrow and
dark stairways, gave way in the GEL
lar to Winter-like cooiness. The
large iron pipes ! which run about
under the low ceiling, just over your
head, are caked in inches of frozen
vapor which sparkled with fairy
land suggestion in a reflection of the
feeble light from The few electric
bulbs. We were as glad when we got
out of this artificial winter as when
We got into it,. S
From these cold caverns we mount
ed once more through an intermin-
able maze Of stairways and pas
sages. 81. y:
shall call Swift 6 Company's
creamery It is where ubutterinen"|
is produced. I do not know whether
the dictionaries have recognized this
new product, but I shall take it for
granted and leave off the quotation
marks. 55: 4, .ss sss 81 4
A big wheel with paddles turned in
long vat of something which looked
like milk, shifting the liquid with
each arm, and at the other end Of the
vat tie butter rose to the. surface,
and two men stood there with q big
cotton cloth ladling out the butter {2), I
ten poundsEat . dip and continually
dipping. II, s.s5::
A 30 far ave could Judge, this was.
real butter, though the hundreds o,f
q gallons ofbepaddled milk looked very
q queer and pale, like 1t might be suf-t
Z iering from nervous prostration.
After this. though, . quantity Of oil
and animal fat 10 added and the pros
y duct is bnttsrine, 80 cents d pound.
The mixture stands loeded on great:
trucks about the room and over on
The other eide two men are busy
moulding Il. man takes ! double.
81 handful ofS Sbnttsrine from the bulk.
Sd 81 slyss : il auoupls Of pats like . negro
mamma does her intended spone' &
II oornbread, then ne bripgs it down.
sith q vigorous nhack into The mould I
making a apatte all arov AZ. The
|&ane1t nan scoops Of The bntferineg
which aprotrudes about the mould, 4
presses a irsadle which shoots ups
"a FSasaiA = .asss5si tom gof the mould,
tsant thera III iynnf ri, ktasina