SLAUGHTERING BY MACHINERY. 



735 



|68 'nnn' 3 ^ ***? ' W 6 . ' 882 ! ? shee P> $V P^kinjx is done in Chicago, and 90 percent. 

 500,000 The value of all the products (meats, of Western hog-slaughtering is performed with 

 lard, oils, glue, fertilizers, etc.) has been esti- the assistance of machinery. The receipts of 



The three sections of the illustration are supposed to be in line, the jointures being made at A A and B B. 



mated at $184,000,000. Twenty-two thousand live animals at the Union Stock- Yards (where 

 men are employed during the busiest or winter all the Chicago abattoirs are located) in 1885 

 season. Forty-five per cent, of Western pork- were : 



