Animal products; . glue allowed to gelatinise. To trans-form glue into the gelatine of the shops it is simply necessary todissolve it in water and allow it to settle. Clarifying agents arealso used to destroy the last vestiges of colour. By the use of gelatine, elastic moulds are made capable ofreproducing with accuracy, and in a single piece, the most elabo-rately sculptured objects of exquisite finish and delicacy. A gelatine is made from what is called picker waste —a picker is a band of buffalo hide used in driving the shuttles ofpower-looms. This gelatine or size is used for stiffening or
Animal products; . glue allowed to gelatinise. To trans-form glue into the gelatine of the shops it is simply necessary todissolve it in water and allow it to settle. Clarifying agents arealso used to destroy the last vestiges of colour. By the use of gelatine, elastic moulds are made capable ofreproducing with accuracy, and in a single piece, the most elabo-rately sculptured objects of exquisite finish and delicacy. A gelatine is made from what is called picker waste —a picker is a band of buffalo hide used in driving the shuttles ofpower-looms. This gelatine or size is used for stiffening or dressingstraw hats, silk, and other textile fabrics. The pieces cut off inmaking it are converted into gelatine for food purposes, but ediblegelatine is also frequently made from sheeps trotters, old parch-ment, and waste pieces of glue. There is a very large and fine collection of the glues andgelatines made in various countries shown in the Animal ProductsCollection, Bethnal Green, see also Cases 129 and 174 BOILING DOWN CATTLE. Boiling down Cattle.—Sometimes, in large slaughteringestablishments abroad, in Australia, or South America, the wholeox or sheep is sent to the melting-pot to be boiled down, for wantof demand for its flesh or facilities for preserving it. In such cases, as for instance in the vast establishment ofMr. J. H. Atkinson, Collingwood, near Liverpool, New SouthWales, 70 to 100 men are employed boiling down sheep andcattle:—As soon as the ox is killed, he is lifted for skinningby machinery, and when the hide, head, hoofs, &c, are removed,the carcase is let down on a chopping-block running on a tram-way ; it is then cut into convenient-sized pieces, without thenecessity of the men handling or lifting the meat, and the trolleychopping-block run on the rails to the other end of the building,where the boilers are. The meat is then lifted from the chopping-block into the boilers by means of endless chains with hooksattached, passing over sheaves, and
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