Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-13

tie market" said he. "They started
killing a few hogs in the old fashion
ed way and made good. Their sausage
became famous in all the country
around here and their business was
profitable. From their venture the
packing house idea grew, and we be-
gan looking around and got in touch
with Mr.. Brooks, who engineered the
construction of the plant. Roy Page,
one of these two brothers, has since
been with the plant, and is now super
intendent and does a great deal of
the purchasing of the stock"
Both Mr.. Page and Mr.. Moon, the
manager, were on hand to greet the
delegation on their arrival rather late
Tuesday afternoon, and they piloted
the party through the plant from be-
ginning to end, demonstrating all of
the operations, except the slaughter
ing, from the time the animal leaves
the pen until it is turned into the va
rious finished products which find a
ready market in this section.
At present the plant is charging
its sausage-making capacity. Accord,
ing to Mr.. Moon, 1925 worth of sau-
sage can be made daily in a plant
killing 100 hogs. One of the enlarge
ments of the plant now being being
made will extend the capacity for
making sausage. At present the plant
is not saving sausage castings. These
are worth 1925 per pound, and the
Chipley plant should produce S85
worth per week as by-product, ac-
cording to Mr.. Moon. The other ad-
ditions to the plant include a new dry
salt storage room for cured meats,
capable of holding 100000 to 100000
pounds of meat and kept at a temper
ature of SO to 40 degrees, two new
smoke houses and a new cooling room.
The number of workmen employed
in the Chipley plant, Mr.. Moon told
the visitors, varies from 25 to 40
men, who are paid from SIS to S25
per week. The office force totals II
persons. The payroll averages $500
weekly, he said.
Cattle All Local
All of the cattle killed in the Chip
ley plant are grown in the Vicinity of
the plant, none of them being Slipped
in. Some of them are driven a dis
lance of so to 60 miles to market,
however, he said. At the present
about Is per cent of the. hogs receiv-
ed at the plant are brought in by wa
gon from surrounding farms. he said,
while in the summer time heretofore
when the plant has worked on greatly
reduced capacity or shut down, prac-
tically all of the receipts have been
wagon hogs.
Although Mr.. Moon is a Northern
man, trained in Northern packing
houses, ne is convert to Southern
pork. AS the party was being shown
through one of the meat storage
rooms he pointed to stack of cured
side meat. "Those are Cleveland bel
les" said he, Shipped in here last
simmer from Cleveland when we
were not getting enough hogs to sup
ply our demand. You see they are
a better looking belly than ours, but
I'll tell you l wouldn't trade ore of
the Cleveland pieces for one of the
native soft peanut-fed for my table
The native pork is so much sweeter
and finer that there is no comparison.
Two years spent at Moultrie before
coming here taught me the difference
between Northern and native peanut
fed pork"
This plant has never had a
chance" was the way Mr.. Moon sum-
med up the past experiences of the
Chipley plant as he sat with the visit