Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-23
STEER HAS MANY USES.
What Becomes of the Steer After Ii
Goes Into Packing Plants.

| uOeS InlO BaCk1ng piantS.
The Iowa Farmer prints the fol
lowing talk by w. L. Eastlake before
the Kansas City Traffic Club: Blood
from the slaughtered animals escapes
over clean floor to a reservoir
where it is allowed to coagulate. The
fluid portion is then liberated and
used in the sizing of paper, and in
liking the coloring of calico. The
solid portion is used for glue or fer
tilizer. Some of the best blood is
used in the refining of sugar, the al
Dumen being made to carry off the
impurities of the syrup. 1t is then
SKINNED off and the syrup filtered
through calcined bones. Poorer
qualities of blood may be thickene1
and pressed into buttons or manufac-
tured into imitation tortoise shell.
Internal organs of a steer are pas
sed mechanically to the various de-
partments to be prepared for food.
soap, medical or fertilizer products.
according to their character and fit
ness. Even the waters in which they
are washed are saved and made 10
yield fertilizer or grease.
The stomach is prepared as tripe.
Bladders are dried for use by snuff
makers or gold beaters. Brewers use
certain of the intestines as Innings
for beer pipes to prevent corrosion.
Ears, parts of tails, bones Of head and
Jaw, and interior of horns are used
in making glue and gelatin.
The hair is used as binder in plas-
tering houses; curled it is used in u.
holstering; and in the case of the fine
hair from the interior of the ears for
"camels hair" brushes
Neatsfoot oil for softening leath-
er and harness is made from the feet.
Hoofs are made into combs and but
tons. Horns are heated, split open
and fiattened into plates from which |
combs, hairpins, knife and umbrella |
napkin rings, tobacco boxes |
and many other articles can be made |
by softening and pressing the plates.
Horn also is used as a substitute for
whalebone. which is becoming scarce.
Bones make knife handles, pipe
stems, buttons and crochet needles,
me charcoal, glue, fertilizer and var
Ious chemical substances. The gall
removed from little sack on the
liver becomes commercial ox-gall.
dall stones are saved and sold abroad
-or medicinal purposes. calf's
stomach furnishes rennet for cheese
making and pepsin comes from the
of hog.
In the meat packing products are
81 varieties of canned meats; grades
II oils and greases; IL varieties of
castings for sausage, putty and other
containers; SO kinds of dry sausage;
Il kinds of fresh; six grades of but
crime; five grades of oleo oil and 10
Grades of beef extract. There are
bout 10 cuts Of fresh edible meats {
II primary parts.
For the medical trade only, AS
are made, glands and mem >
francs being packed while perfectly {
resh in the plant laboratories. The /
nut strings department makes VIC 5
In strings, surgical ligature, tennis |
trings, clock cord, drug snares, belt 9
icing and other products. The SOAP L
apartment of one company makes )
bout 90 kinds of laundry and toilet
oaps, as we'll as cleaners, washing l
owders, talcum powder, tooth paste =
ace cream and smelling salts.
The fertilizer department is con-
nually Analysing soil samples and
roviding the kind of plant food most
eeded by farmers and horticultur-
It's. Miscellaneous products OF COM
ION use are stock foods, sand ana
merry paper, anhydrous ammonia.
'ttonseed oil, lard compounds and
llnce meat. A special building is
eyoted to the treatment of sheen
iins, pulling the wool and prepar-
g it for market.