Making Pork. !

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 266, 13 October 1883, Page 2

Making Pork. !

What an Englishman saw at Chicago. A, San Francisco paper says, the. (olJovring is an extract from, J the News^r— f*Of couise I went to', see the .Btockyards of Chicago. A Hfely piebald porker was one of a number grunting and. quarrelling m a pen, and I was • asked to, keep my eye oV him... And what, happened to that porker was this : rHe was suddenly seized by the hind leg ! and jerked up on a small crane. This swung- him swiftly to the fatal door through which no pig ever returns. On , the other, side stood a man~ ... 7 ,That two-handed engine at the door v . , Stands ready to smite once, and smite sno more % ;: , --■■ And the dead pig shot across a iroukh.,andfthrough another doorway, andi then there ri wasa splash. * He* had fallen head jfirst into a vat of boiling water. Some ""unseen ' macKinOTy^aisM* hinTlilohg . | swiftly .tOxthe^pthetjeniiOf the terrib'leJ bath, and there a "water- wheel picked him up and flung him out on toaslopingf counter. Here another machine seized v him, and with^ne^rerolntion scraped him as bald aipa/jnnt. And down thecounter he WQn% loaing his head as he. slid past a man .with a hatchet, aiuf> then, prfstplyhe was i.np again by the. heels; In one- dreadful handful a man had emptied him, and while another sqaiitodi him with fresh water, the pig — registering "his i^bwn weight as he passed the* teller's- box~>stjibt down tho steel bar frqm „ which he hang aad whisked around the corner, into the icehouse. One iongjeut of a knife made two "sides ot pork" put p£ ; that piebald, pig. Two hacks <of a. hatchet brought away" ! his b^ck^onJEf; " 'AM there, m thirty^fiye seconds from his last grunt, dirty, hothertded, noisy— the. pia:? ; wais hanging -up m two piece 3, clean, tranquil, : ;icedi^.. „.".■ ;;."'.-: ,.""■ ",..z : -,. ,;/.'j ! }