_Loading Facilities._--The general arrangement provides for wagon and dray loading facilities fronting the main thoroughfare. The garage and office are at the left and right sides of the court. Three tracks are situated between the two groups of buildings to take care of the car loading. Usually the refrigerated products are loaded upon the east track, and non-refrigerated products, such as hides and bones, and the oleo department products, upon the west track. The intermediate track is used for the storing of cars. By use of the connecting platform at the south end either kind of cars can be loaded on either track. A separate non-interfering railroad spur is provided for unloading coal, and cotton seed oil, and for loading tallow, while a distinct track is provided for loading cars of dry salt meats from the pork warehouse. [Illustration: FIG. 5.--PLANT NO. 1, MODERATE SIZE PACKING HOUSE.] _Producing Department_--The abattoir is made the center of distribution, with the refrigerated buildings and departments directly communicative, situated nearby. The rendering and manufacturing departments--users of steam and power--are grouped near to the abattoir and to the power plant, while the buildings requiring refrigeration are grouped together and isolated from the manufacturing buildings. The stock pens connected with the plant are to the left of the manufacturing groups, but are not shown on the plan. _Abattoir Building_--This building, six stories high, is given over to the following uses: Fourth floor, slaughtering; third floor, treatment, separation and cooking of by-products and manufacture of casings; second floor, oleo oil manufacturing; first floor, oleo oil storage, and shipping purposes; basement and sub-basement, storage of tallow and curing of hides. [Illustration: FIG. 6.--EXTERIOR VIEW BEEF, SHEEP AND PORK PLANT.] _Rendering Building_--Divided into two sections and separated by partitions, one side is used for the refining of cotton seed oil and the manufacture of edible tallows; the other side for cooking blood and rendering inedible tallows. The floors are used as follows: Second floor, level with viscera separating floor in abattoir, from whence raw stock is trucked to the filling floor without requiring use of elevators for filling of tanks; first floor, tank bodies and receptacles for collection of tallow. The skimming vats to which the tank residue, after drawing off the tallows, is passed, are level with this floor, enabling the separation and floating of the tallow and its collection; basement for press room, and sub-basement for drying tankage. The tank water to be evaporated is collected and passed to a separate building for treatment and evaporation.