The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-10-21
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for processing as was the prac-
tice formerly.
Among the customers is the
state agricultural school at Morris
while large hatchery at Willmar
uses five tons of meat scraps a
week for feed mix.
Collecting operations are car
ried on by Is truckers who collect
from 120 stations and maintain
permanent residence in their re-
spective towns. Royal Garman is
t at Elbow Lake; William Davis at
Stewart; Roy Hewett at Willmar;
Arthur Arnhold at Walnut Grove;
A. M. Monson at MARSHALL; Har-
vey Hines at Sleepy Eye; Roy
Shoemaker at Appleton; Harvey
Hewett at Granite Falls; John
Hewett at Redwood Falls and Leo
Ruder at Morris.
They solicit business largely
through newspaper advertising,
carrying regular ads in $50 pa
pers throughout the territory.
Ballard came here in 1880 and
started the plant at its present
location near the Minnesota river
bayou north of North Redwood.
He had two cookers in 16 by "a
foot frame building. Only two
men were required to operate the
plant.
! In 1886 he built the modern and
convenient main brick building in
which skinning, cutting, cooking
and pressing operations take place.
A small brick office building has
also been added.
Trucks bringing in dead live
stock run up ramp to the top
floor of the main building for I'M
loading. SHINING and cutting
are done there and the meat drop
ped into the top of the two cook
erS which are located on the floor
below. When cooked dry it is put
! into a press and the grease, which
is later sold to soap factories, is
removed.
/ The cookers each have 10000
pounds capacity and the press is
hydraulic with a pressure of 300
tons.
! There is also a hide room where
hides are sailed before sale to
leather factories. Last summer
during the busy season the plant
used 60 tons of salt in two
months.
! When operations are at their
height rs men are employed In
I the plant proper which runs "a
hours a day and the place uses
eight tons of coal a day and 49,
900 gallons of water, from the
we'll on the property. Electricity
is generated there by steam en-
CINE but Mr. Ballard hopes to
secure rural identification serv-
ice soon.
Things will be quiet at the
place until March. At present
there is only one shift with the
following men employed: Edward
Monson, foreman; Joe Pistulka,
( bookkeeper; Andrew Hendrick-
son, Marvin Kemnitz, Ralph Hig-
gins, Arthur Neale, William
Neale, Paul Young, James Carr,
Curtis Won Mosch, Cecil Wester-
house, William Reynolds, Pat
Corcoran and Archie Gribbons.
Tom Owens, who lives there, is
night Waterman.
Ballard is proud of his pro-
ducts. The tankage which is
used for a balanced ration in
livestock tests 60 per cent pro-
tein, is palatable to livestock, is
of f1oury texture and the high
est standard in color. 1t is made
by a secret process which to their
knowledge is not duplicated else
where.
The plant was closed in 1888
because of poor prices but MIR.
Ballard does not believe a move
of that sort will again be neces-
Sary. One of his deepest regrets
is that this summer employees
had to bury go head of livestock
because they were unable to treat
them while they were still fresh.
Another innovation at the plant
is the design used on feed bags
A bright red design resembling
Redwood log surrounds the trade
name "PadU1O0d -