Receiving Live Stock -- Watering -- Driving Cattle -- Knocking Cattle -- Sticking -- Heading -- Pritch Sticks -- Foot Skinning -- Ripping and Leg Breaking -- Flooring Cattle -- Breast Sawing -- Fell Cutting -- Rumping -- Beef Spreaders -- Fell Beating -- Gutting -- Backing -- Tail Sawing -- Splitting -- Splitting Cleavers -- Clearing Out and Hide Dropping -- Neck Splitting -- Bruise Trimming -- Skirt Trimming -- Washing Cattle -- Fountain Brushes -- Dressing Cattle -- Conveyors. CHAPTER X. DRESSING YIELDS AND CATTLE CUTTING 106 Yields of Cattle -- Yield from Twenty-two Native Cattle -- Yield from Fifty-nine Texas Cattle -- Yield from Twenty Heavy Cattle -- Yield from Thirty-four Cattle -- Percentage of Various Cuts -- Beef Cuts -- Diagram of Cutting -- Grading -- Loins -- Ribs -- Rounds -- Chucks -- Plates, Shanks and Flanks -- Barreled Beef. CHAPTER XI. HIDES AND PELTS 126 Green Hides -- Condition -- Scores -- Prod Pole Damage -- Clean Floors -- Leather Yields -- Pattern -- Proper Storage for Hides -- Grading -- Grubs in Hides -- Salt to Be Used -- Building of Packs of Hides -- Trimming of Green Hides -- Switches -- Shrinkage of Hides -- Sheep Pelts. CHAPTER XII. OLEO OIL AND STEARINE 136 Fats -- Origin of Butterine -- Oleo Oil -- Oleo Fats -- Selection and Care -- Cleanliness and Collection -- Chilling Fat -- Cooling Water -- Melting -- Settling the Oil -- Clarifiers -- Scrap Vat -- Seeding or Graining Oil -- Press Room -- Collecting Oil -- Oil Receivers -- Temperature of Oil Drawn to Tierce -- Stearine -- Oil House Yields -- Grading Fats -- Tests on Oil Fats -- Butcher Fats -- Mutton Fat -- Oil Selection -- Oil House Operation. CHAPTER XIII. BONE DEPARTMENT 159 Bone Department -- Hard Bone -- Glue Bone -- Bone Products -- Horns -- Manufactured Articles -- Skulls -- Test Yield from Skulls and Feet -- Buttocks and Thighs -- Blades and Ribs -- Drying -- Crushed Bone -- Grinding Bone -- Neats Foot Oil Storage -- Neats Foot Oil Purifier -- Yield Tests. CHAPTER XIV. TANK HOUSE DEPARTMENT 170 Tank House Design -- Isolation and Ventilation -- Separation of Press Room -- Digesters -- Rendering Tank -- Surface Box -- Press and Pump -- Cooking Killing Stock -- Operating Tank Blow Off -- Pressing Tankage -- Treatment of Lard and Tallow -- Titer in Tallow and Lard -- Steam for Cooking -- Cooking Tests -- Operating Odorless -- Tests -- Catch Basin. CHAPTER XV. TANK WATER 189