CHICAGO MEAT PACKING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 8

CHICAGO MEAT PACKING.

N- A'NEW ZEALANDER'S STORY. J" , 4l • • I*.'.; 'A Zealand resident, who rfcently j'.Kitilnifid from a trip to America gavo tho f . writer 'Ha-. accoiinf" of Afmour's • • melt" f .wo'rks at Chicago. ■ i it-a "Thiy put through 15,000. pigs>; day," S* -lie' said.'; ?Tta-' thousand . people 5 areemployed.,in .the' works. -Besides! the pigs, they* handle ,3500-cattlo a day'and 6000 pKoteVA: good many; New Zealaiidcrs, or ;pMi V -*l>o aro lived in NeV, Zealand, •irdrV there."..-,., :: : •: - r ,; •• -' The! pigs," ho said,'Verd killed with; the f ; 'aid of; machinery on tho whtel principle. K'-'Two!, hundred. and; fifty wore Killed in Keighfc.minutcs, and all the time the'kill--1; itig-is proceeding a great big fat man; is, [standing-up'to his knees in blood. whole.plaoe isi enormous/arid the ijistoekyards alorio are so .vast that you l-ioould- get lost iu. themi Everything is as P clean v as possible, and elaborately dressed |-'wdmen .'aro employed.' manicuring, the KiuiUs'of ' tho girls, who cut up tho meat. PPigs'arft beifig received all day long and [• alKnight long. 'Thousands : of cars '/and r engines • may, bb : seen drawn, up .at pthe sidings.. All-the/rolling stock you see E;.there.'is ; branded 'Armoiirs'.".. -i ; RV,The? tourist,'was! so impressed 'with fr that,. in' bo eaid: r "*This is one"of the finest sights I'ever saw—this: and.Niagara!" . . -