Description of Plants -- Plant No. 1 -- Plant No. 2 -- Plant No. 3 -- Plant No. 4 -- Type of Plant -- Loading Facilities -- Producing Department -- Abbatoir Building -- Rendering Building -- Live Stock -- Icing Department -- Cooler Building -- Pork House -- Manufacturing Building -- Salt Spaces -- Power Department -- Gravity System -- How to Build -- Fireproof Design -- Advantages -- Slow Burning Construction -- Approval of Plans. CHAPTER IV. REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT 29 Ammonia Machines -- Ammonia -- Compressor -- Condenser -- Receiver -- Cooler -- Condensing Water -- Unit Basis -- Computing from Unit Basis -- How Rated -- Freezer Requirements -- Freezers in Small Plants -- Cylinder Arrangement -- Why Brine Circulation -- Air Circulating -- Force Draft -- Coil Room Systems -- Brine Chilling -- Brine Methods -- Types of Brine Coolers -- Balanced Brine System -- Direct Expansion -- Two Stage Compressors. CHAPTER V. REFRIGERATION REQUIREMENTS 45 Refrigeration -- Necessities -- Ice Plants -- Natural Ice -- Chilling -- Quantity Refrigeration to Provide -- Space Per Ton Machine -- Machinery Per Head -- For Cooled Meats -- Ice Computation -- Compressor Capacity -- Chilling Lard -- Summary Computations -- Low Temperature Brine System. CHAPTER VI. POWER PLANT REQUIREMENT 52 Steam Making Equipment -- Uses of Pumps -- Types of Pumps -- Pumps for Brine -- Water Supply -- Pumps for Wells -- Water Distribution Systems -- Pumps for Boiler Feeding -- Heating Boiler Feed Water -- Wells -- Cooling Towers -- Economizers -- Superheaters -- Steam Engines -- Exhaust Steam -- Advice as to Exhaust Steam -- Boilers -- Conclusion. CHAPTER VII. COOLERS 60 Meat Chilling -- Dividing Beef Coolers -- Regular Temperatures -- Main Cooler -- Handling Beef -- Fore-Cooler -- Heavy Cattle -- Domestic Beef -- Trimming of Beef -- Skirt Trimming -- Ribbing Beef -- Freezing Beef -- Loading Beef -- Weighing and Tagging -- Care of Coolers -- Mutton and Veal -- Chilling Hogs -- Cellars -- Freezing Meat. CHAPTER VIII. WAREHOUSES 70 Warehouse Design -- Floor Area -- Fire Proof Buildings -- Floor Construction -- Coolers -- Fan and Ventilation -- Spray System -- Galvanized Sheet Iron Pipes -- Coil Rooms -- Quantity of Pipe -- Method of Erecting -- Life of Pipe -- Cellar Ceiling Suspension -- Ratio of Piping -- Defrosting -- Gardner Curtain System -- Direct Expansion Piping -- Chill-Room Bunkers -- Low Temperature Brine System -- Freezer and Storage Buildings. CHAPTER IX. SLAUGHTERING CATTLE 92