. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. s Gus says, should be called 88. When askedwhat becomes of the 88, he said they are sent to SouthChicago, where they are esteemed as a great delicacy in §42 THE UNION STOCKYARDS 243 The meat canning and preserving establishment ofLibby, McNeil & Libby is the largest in the kinds of meat are canned and preserved by themand shipped to every part of the world. Their canningfactory and tin shop are among the most interestingsights of the stockyards. Some idea of the magnitudeof their p
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. s Gus says, should be called 88. When askedwhat becomes of the 88, he said they are sent to SouthChicago, where they are esteemed as a great delicacy in §42 THE UNION STOCKYARDS 243 The meat canning and preserving establishment ofLibby, McNeil & Libby is the largest in the kinds of meat are canned and preserved by themand shipped to every part of the world. Their canningfactory and tin shop are among the most interestingsights of the stockyards. Some idea of the magnitudeof their plant may be gained from the knowledge thattwo car loads of tin and 4,000 pounds of solder are useddaily in the manufacture of the tins used on theircanned products. A remarkable machine in the tinshop, and the only one in existence, solders the top andbottom on 35,000 rectangular shaped cans per day,as they pass through it in a continuous stream. It isthe invention of Mr. Charles H. Emery, General Super-intendent for Libby, McNeil & Libby, to whom he soldthe patent rights on the MIXING BUTTERINE. MANUFACTURE OF BUTTERINE. Prejudick against butterine exists only in the mindsof the uninformed. Butterine is even supposed bysqueamish individuals to be somehow nasty, although ifquestioned as to their reason for this supposition theyare put to it for an answer. As a matter of fact, thisprejudice is one of those popular superstitions whichlive on ignorance, the miasma of intellectual swamps. Analyze butterine by the nicest chemical tests andyou find in it only the purest and most nutritious ele-ments; examine its manufacture and the neatest house-wife would delight in places and processes so immacu-late. There is no secret connected with the manufactureof butterine. Every factory in the Union Stockyardsis wide open for public inspection, and indeed, so farabove public expectation is the management of the factories that it is entirely to their interest to help 244 THE UNION
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