The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-07-02

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FOR d hole the size u an egg i'm one
side. The man takes AN egg and places
IL over this hole II il is good the lsht
shines right through and makes IL look
like an egg Of real gold. II 70 is bad
the egg viii not he transparent. II
will look stre1bed and spotted, and n
rotten almost black. All but t5e best
eggs are rejected, and a record is kept
of every egg handled. We look over
the reports and find that in the last
hatch of 1000 only A eggs We're bad.
That is only about two bad eggs 90
the thousand. The eggs are all candicd
before they leave New Orleans. and
only the good ones are paid for. Those
which come cracked are saved and
USED ia the bakery.
The same care is employed as to the
butter. Uncle Sam buys the best the
creamories can furnish and that only
in bulk 1t used 10 be that butter was
sent down IN prints. but il was found
that IL cost cents more per pound to
bring IL that way. and that Il did not
keep so well. For this reason the gov
clnment has its own butter cutting
machines ard it cats and packs its
own prints. The butter now sells al
A. cents pound. and it Is of the
grade which cost 6 cents more than
that in the states.
We find the chambers colder and
colder as we go On with our journey.
Those In which the turkeys, ducks
squads and milk-fed chickens are kept
is only II degrees above zero and
The fowls are frozen stiff Here there
are fresh fish oysters canvas back and
teal ducks, as we'll as sveetbreads and
other things. ! take one of the chick
ems m my hand, and pound a box with
Il. IL is as solid as ice and have lit
tie difficulty i'm breakiug tho boards.
\ little further on is the meat cooler.
the temperature of which keeps the
flesh as hard as a glacier. Immense
quarters of beef hang from the racks.
There are zoo quarters in this single
room, and this will last only five days
The boeves come i'm by the thousand az
shipload, and they go out almost as
last IL takes more than 5000 cattle
year to supply the canal en-
ployes. and about a ton of pork chops
are consumed every day. As To corn
ed beef. the government makes its
own. II has Vats connected with the
cold storage department which have
"a capacity Of 10000 pounds. 1t takes
about 1000 pounds OF such meat ev-
cry day to supply the demand
Uncle sam makes his own ice cream,
AMI ne sells his employees eighty thou
sand dollars worth every year. This
rs sent ont i'm tubs 20 the hotels and
the retail stores The havors are
changed Eve or six times week. and
there is "A special arrangement for sup
plying ice cream on SUNDAYS As 70
the ice itself that is made i'm the cold
storage plant. The amount manufac-
tured is ninety tons a day, and the
ice receipts for one year are more than
100000.
But suppose we ny from The poles
to the tropics. We can do SO by walk
ing from the cold storage plant 90 the
bakery and laundry, which are not far
away The bakery is one Of the laig-
est on earth. and everything there is
done upon big scale The dough Is
kneaded by machinery in a big iron
trough. 1t comes ont In loaves. be-
ing cut 10y "a dough divider which
makes seyenty-tvo loaNes every min
ute ono batch of dough will make
1880 loaVes. The ovens are great
chambers walled with porcelain each
Of which win bake s00 one -pounl
loavcs at time. Altogether they can
make $4,000 loaves in one day and
from 10000 20 $4,000 loavos are now
being consumed every twentv-four
hours The employees Of the bakery
are both white and colored with a
white man at the head.
Uncle Sans Laundry is another big
feature OF this mercantile establish
mont II consists of several large halls
which are filed with jamaica ne
crosses, washing and ironing The
clothes sre passed through i've waters
from cold 10 hot while the machinery
scours out the dirt The wrinemg is
done 10y centrifugal force IN machines
like those used for sugar making, and
the ironing has tho aid of electricity
The latter work is performed by ne
gro girls who receive from Z to 10 cents
an hour. Each has an electric iron
fastened 20 a tube over her mead. and
she asses an ironing beard covered witt
white cotton which Is so supported
that it,is level with her waist. IS "a
the white shirts. they pass through
pressing machines. and the collars
have special machines of their own