The National tribune., 1906-07-19

one leg by an endless chain, on which is
an attachment which adjusts itself to
the aforementioned leg. no matter It's
size. and the next thing they don't know
anything, for they are run by that one
leg on a trolley against a pig sticker.
which cuts the throat OF every porker
as 1t passes. and they pass at the rate
OF thousands an hour sometimes.
The Filth Begins.
Here the filth begins. But I tried to
study 1t all out, and / do not see h,w
any OF IL can be avoided The blood
goes into trench and is carried away
In constant stream. out into the great
fertilizing sewers. Not all OF Ii, for it
will splash over sometimes. The hogs
go just as fast as you can count them
almost into the great tanks OF scalding
water, dropped automatically from that
trolley The stencil from those watts is
something vile, but that is the only way
to scrape hog, / reckon. 1t has been
followed from time immemorial on the
farm. whether II is one hog or half a
hundred; they are scalded and scrapeG>
and IL my nose serves me properly the
farm hog and the packing-house hog
smell exactly alike. AS they are pass
ing from this vat into the scraper a
man peels the hair off the tail OF each.
and from these bristles Miladi's best
hair-brushes are made.
The Inspectfon.
Suddenly the hog disappears, black.
smelly, bloody. into a sort OF dark
chute, from which he emerges as white
and smooth as the cheek of the new.
mown youth after his first shave Big
hogs. little hogs and just pigs, those
knives adjust themselves to the anato-
my, and embrace the porker in clean
shave. The hog plunges from the
fn yh he Is,
caught by man who cuts his throat
with a cash OF his knife, and the pig
then slides under the hands of the Gov
ernment Inspector, who stands with a
sharp knife in his hand and cuts the
throat glands OF every hog as ii passes
him. He can tell at a glance whether
those glands are diseased or not, and IL
they are, out goes Mr. Hog, condemned.
IL they are all right, the hog Is passed
on, his head finished off by the next
men, a hook yanks him up, and from
that moment he slides along on q troll
ley to his finish. The next man Sits
the belly, the next man removes the
entrails, and these automatically slide
down into the hands Of the Government
Inspector, who Is supposed to examine
each lot by tearing them apart to see
the kidneys. heart and liver. / know
the Inspector does not see them all, for
while l stood watching him the internal
arrangements Of four hogs slid by him
into the chute for fertilizers, while he
was examining rather minutely the set
that came down before these he missed.
Let me tell you. this inspecting busi-
ness is nasty enough. All day long those
men stand in that one place gashing
glands, tearing entrails apart and in
specting other portions of the carcass at
various stages until at last the hog Is
entirely dismembered. the whole time
consumed from the yanking up on the
wheel to the cutting in half and slide
into the cooling room not being more
than 10 minutes, should think. I
fancy that under high pressure that
hog would be in the cooling room within
five minutes after he got his hot bath.
followed that hog, as have said. to
his finish, where he was chopped up