. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . ? h- ri <1 a. ^ <. ^ O J ^ ^ al o ^5 h- 0 o «/^ O. c ? u 3 U- O O Z V <[ i^ oi ol h- 1- ^, ^ LLLVATION TILACI^ ^UPPOD-T^ fe-O HIGH PLAN. FIG. 54—DETAIL OP TRACKS FOR FEI^TILIZER PRESS. A similar arrangement can be installed for the lar


. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . ? h- ri <1 a. ^ <. ^ O J ^ ^ al o ^5 h- 0 o «/^ O. c ? u 3 U- O O Z V <[ i^ oi ol h- 1- ^, ^ LLLVATION TILACI^ ^UPPOD-T^ fe-O HIGH PLAN. FIG. 54—DETAIL OP TRACKS FOR FEI^TILIZER PRESS. A similar arrangement can be installed for the lardwhich is skimmed off from the skimming boxes in the edibledepartment. The tank can then be set directly on the cellarfloor. The skimmings are sent back to the edible render-ing tanks to be recooked. CHAPTER IXSMOKE HOUSES Meats are preserved and made more palatable by beingexposed for a certain length of time to the smoke fromwood fires. In the olden days the smoke house was a partof every large household and hams and bacon were curedand smoked much in the same manner as in the modernpacking house of today. The principal change will be found in the method ofhanging the meat. In the old-style smoke house woodensticks were placed from wall to wall and the meat was hungin tiers, one above the other, until the house was method has been discarded for the more convenientsystem of using portable meat trolleys, suspended fromoverhead rails. By extending these rails to the soakingva


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