Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1876 — Making the Most of a Steer. [ARTICLE]

Making the Most of a Steer.

At the abattoirs of New York there is nothing of a steer lost after it is slaughtered ; every part of its substance is used for some purpose, even to the blood. The handling of the bullocks after they are penned up for slaughter is thus described by a correspondent of the New York Bulletin: " “The way they kill a sheer is this: A man gets in behind the steer sand throws a rope around the hind leg of one. Then lie signals two men who pull on a windlass till the head steer is above the ground. Then the throat is cut and the blood flows into pans. A steer generally gives three panfuls of blood. Then the lot of savages -the skinner, legger and entrail drawer—pounce upon the carcass as a very hungry man assails a beefsteak, and in.ii vety short time it is a carcass of dressed beer, ready for market.' The butchers pay rental for pens for storage and slaughter, and bring their slock over the Pennsylvania Railroad. , % “ The Abattoir Company make every thing pay profit. They? salt the hides down long enough to set the hair. Then they shake out the salt and ship them to Europe and all parts of the United States. The unsalable portions of the hides are made into glue, the horns. into buttons, combs, etc., and the inside of them into Bone lime; the bones into various articles of commerce The fat is rendered and" the offal made into a fertilizer at The Meadows—a station about four miles out on the road from Jersey City, where the hoc abattoir and the repair shops are sithated. ; ““"The blood is poured from the pans into u;oa tanks and run under a chutepipe to cook. It goes up an elevator and down the chute, then to a differ, andhy -various systems of manipulation finally 'teaches the stage where it is reduced 90 “per"cenFT&n<rcontains IT per cent, ammonia. It is almost nn impalpable powder, and Is worth fifty dollars per ton. This place turns out a’ton and a half of it per lajfeX" . i “The Abattoir Company do not allow anything—hides, pieces, bones, horns, blood or offal of any kind—to be thrown away, because there is money in every

particle of the beet. They have the offal and bones carted away to their destinations—the bone lactory and fertilizing eatablisbment—immediately upon the acctff* mutation of a car-load, and the place is cleaned up every day. “The theory that filth congregates about an abattoir, or that the river is filled up by the offal thrown overboard, iSjdtepcllud by the facts. The Board oi Health of Jersey City are convinced that ttjere Is nothing about a well-conducted abattoir that is deleterious to the public health.”