The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articlesWilder, F. W. (Fred William)
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The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articles
Wilder, F. W. (Fred William)
Packing-houses
{ 3,169 lbs. No. 1 stock = 81.34 per cent.
3,896 lbs. tallow = { 539 lbs. scrap tallow = 13.84 per cent.
{ 188 lbs. waste = 4.82 per cent.
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100.00 per cent.
The above 3,169 pounds of stock showed in oleo oil and stearine:
YIELD IN OLEO OIL AND STEARINE.
=================+======+=======+=========+=======
| Per |Weight,| Price |
Product | cent | lbs. | per lb. | Value
-----------------+------+-------+---------+-------
No. 1 oil | 80.75| 2,559 | $0.11 |$281.49
No. 1 stearine | 18.49| 586 | .13¹⁄₂| 79.11
Waste in pressing| .76| 24 | ... | ...
-----------------+------+-------+---------+-------
Totals |100.00| 3,169 | ... |$360.60
-----------------+------+-------+---------+-------
The total value of the offal of fifty-nine Texas cattle, including
tallow, was $531.78; average per head, $9.103.
=Yield from Twenty Heavy Cattle.=--The following tables show the yield
in beef, hides and tallow, and the value of offal of twenty cattle,
eight hides, classified as natives and twelve as spreadies.
The yield in sweetbreads from twenty cattle was: 20 pieces weighing
seven pounds, valued at 20c per pound; total value, $1.40. The yield
in tripe was 20 pieces weighing 420 pounds, valued at ¹⁄₂c per pound;
total value, $2.10. Total value of sweetbreads and green tripe, $3.50.
The product sent to tank room was 1,626 pounds green weight to tanks,
the average per head being 81.3 pounds.
PERCENTAGE OF YIELD IN BEEF, HIDES AND TALLOW.
===============================+=======+================+=======+=====
|Weight,| |Weight,| Per
Product | lbs. | Averages | lbs. | cent
-------------------------------+-------+----------------+-------+-----
Live weight | 24,650|Average |1,232 | ...
Dressed weight | 15,894|Average | 758 |61.64
Shipping weight | 14,914|Shrinkage | | 1.84
Hides weight (eight natives and| | | |
twelve spreadies) | 1,731| ... | 86.5| 7.10
Total fat | 1,552|Average per head| 77.6| 6.20
-------------------------------+-------+----------------+-------+-----
YIELD IN TRIMMINGS FROM TWENTY CATTLE.
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