Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — How Texas Cattle are Utilized. [ARTICLE]

How Texas Cattle are Utilized.

There are beef-packing establishments at Rockport and Fulton, Texas, both of which places are in the centre of cattle ranges, in which one hundred thousand beeves are slaughtered every year. Every part of the beef is utilised, even to the tofts of the tails, which in preserved aad sold for the making of ladies* friezes. The blood flows into tanks aad la dressed? aad sold at two cents a pound for the making of fertilizes. The tongues and lean beef are boiled and canned. The hides are rted and sold again. The fatty matter | extracted and goes to tallow. The bone* are boiled to a pulp to extract this fatty matter, and the dir boast, mainly phosphate of time, are sold at oae oeat, a shin botiaand knuckle bones are sold (hr the manufacture of domestic ivory. The horns are piled up until the pith beSomee loose, aad this is added to tbe fertilisers, and the hone are sold for manufacture. Every atom of ■ ■ ' ■ l }', ■ m Mr C« There is something wrong. Lithographs of .Ole 801 l are up in the a mdowa of De troit and yet the announcement “Farewell Concert" appears not oo them, . . p~*