The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-07-29

IRENE opposite end Of the plant from
the cooler and is back of the boiler
and engine rooms. It is equipped
with a WannenWetsch rendering ma
chlne, a grease tank, overhead
| tracks, and the necessary hand and
steam ho1sts. All the offal in the
killing room and all dead stock from
in and around the city are put into
the tank in this room. After a
charge is put in the tank is hermet-
lcally sealed and not opened until
the finished products are taken out,
AFTER three to six hours treatment,
by which time they are practically
odorless. The gases and odors that
are not condensed and trapped into
the sewer are passed under the fire
box and boiler and are consumed
there. The products of the rendering
plant are talloW and tankage. The
tallow is sold at from five to five
and half cents a pound and is
readily purchased by laundrymen and
soapmakers. The tankagea is worth
by chemical analysis as a fertilizer
$3.50 ton. In many places chops
and grain are mixed with it and it
is then sold as chicken feed. The
owner of the animals receives the
hide, all the talloW adhering to the
carcass. as well as the rough fat
from the offal. The remaining fat
adhering to the offa1 recovered in the
rendering tank goes to the city. No
effort is made to utilize any other
by-produets, such as hoofs for glue,
bristles from hogs, tail switches of
cattle, etc.
he refrige ting plant is equipped
wit 1asdata appI ia noes and Is.
rated at about ten tons refrigerating
capacity per day of twenty four
hours
A thorough system of inspection
is maintained by the city, the chief
inspector being a graduate veterin-
a1ian who has had special course
of instruction under skilled govern
ment inspectors. Two inspections
are made, first the ante-mortem,
second the post-martem. The first
is made in the stock pens, the Sec
ond in the killing room, the latter
including not alone inspection Of
the carcass, but also a careful in
spectlon of the yiscera together with
the lungs and liver The rules of
inspection are the same as are used
by the United States government in
spectors in the packing houses. If
animals are. rejected on live inspec-
ton the owners are notified and the
animals are at once removed from
ho tEloa .
termined upon in the killing room
the carcass is tanked and The owner
is allowed what it is worth in tai
low and tankage. The inspector is
the ranking employee and makes daily
reports to the city secretary, who
keeps the accounts. In addition to
the inspector the regular employees in
clude an engineer, two slaughterers,
one driver and one deadstock man.
Tt was not the design of our
plant to make money! says the
mayor, s'but it was thought best to
make it self-sustaining; accordingly
after two months experience we de-
termined that we would charge $1.25
for each beef, and seVenty-five cents
for each calf, hog, sheep or goat.
These charges cover the two in
spections, slaughtering, five days
cold storage, and delivery on the
hook in the meat cutters shop If
any carcass is left in the refrigerat-
ing rooms longer than five days a
charge of ten cents per day is made.
1--WE have demonstrated to the
satisfaction Of every butchr that we
can hang a carcass on the hook in
his shop cheaper than he can, and
further that there is no sort of
legitimate comparison between our
system and the one he formerly en-
ployed.
However practical and beneficial
our present plant and system has
proved to be, it is still susceptible
to further development. We expect
later to require the inspection and
slaughter of chickens and other fowls
sold or offered for sale in the local
market, to be conducted under our
supervision. We expect also to grind
sausage and render lard and talloW
at our plant.
ssThe plant cost complete $4,000.
Our estimated population is $1,000.
While the plant is small, it has
every facility for producing pure and
wholesome food that is possessed by
the largest packing house IN the
country. Our capacity is ample for
present needs, but the time must
come in a very few years when 1T
must be increased.
Shro,;r Cara Eyec