HOW CATTLE ARE SLAUGHTERED IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 284, 8 October 1879, Page 2

HOW CATTLE ARE SLAUGHTERED IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Acorrespiindent, who aptly subscribes himself A Globe-trotter," furnishes us with a few interesting particulars of the mode in which cattle are slaughtered on the Uruguay. According to his account the American plan is far more expeditious iind clean than that which is popular in Australia, but of this our readers may fi'rm their own conclusions, Att iched to the yawls there are three corrals or yards, lhe first is the largest. Into this the herd is driven, and a large draft is taken m the second, from which a few at a time are driven into the third, and a kind of last, A lasso is thrown over the horns of one of the cattle in this lane and a horseman, having two horses, pulls the rope or lasso, which goes over a pulley, by which means the ox is pulled on to a carriwo • with his head against a door. Two now stick their knives from above orlraL the side into the back of his neck, and animal falls down. The rope is now let loose and comes off the horns, the door nsss, and the carriage is pulled away into the shed; another carriage is pushed in. and the door falls, Meanwhile the horseman has returned. When the carcase gets mto the shed it is pulled off the carriage and the neck is immediately cut, to let the blood out. The carcase is skinned, and the head cut off in the usual way, and the abattoirs, which are well floored with stone, are regularly washed down, and, our informant states, kept scrupulously clean, although 1000 head are often disposed of in this way in one morning. One farmi Med during the season ending June 1878, no less than 146,000 head of cattle, ot which every ounce was put to some use, lhe special advantage of the trucking sys- < tem seems to be that the skiuning° and other necessary work is done far away trom the spot where the the beasts aro waiting for daughter.