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BEEF TRUST ETH@ODS THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BENGS GROUND DOWN BY PITILESS CORPORATIONS. Inhuinan Treatment of Men and Women Who Are Forced to Work in Great Establishments.-In Low est Depths of Misery. By UrTox Smi.L Ciew York World.) It Is literally the truth that the pack era treat their men like dogs. There Is no place in all Packingtown where the slightest consideration is shown for a human being. They are com pelled to be on hand at a certain hour In the *norning, even though there is no killing to be done; they are laid off without the slightest ceremony, and they have no idea when the work will start up again. They are cheated out of their pay most shamelessly; if enough men happen to be on hand the bosses will start them up before the whistles blow, and cheat them that way. If they are working overtime and do not make a full hour, even though they fail by only five minutes, they get nothing for it. If any error Is made in the computation of their work they have no redress; there is always one answer to every complaint: "If you do not like it you can go else where." ONE VAST TRUST. The conditions in Packingtown have reached their present state of degrad ation by the naturai process of com petition, or rather, there is competi tion of labor while there is no competi tion of capital.. There is but one vast employing trust and a body of absolutely unorganized and helpless types of human beings are coming there. There has been a regular pro cession of the races through Packing town; the Industry was founded by skilled cattle butchers from Germany; then they began the importing of Irish men. After the strike of 1894 they set to work deliberately to crowd the labor market so as to prevent further trou bles; frst they brought Poles, then Bohemians, then Lithuanians, and now finally Slovaks. These are nearly all undersized, wretched people who can not speak English, and who impress one as having no more intelligence than. a dumb animal. The bosses beat them and kick them and spit in their faces. I saw sights of this sort which fairly made my blood boil. I saw a poor, wretched Lithuanian pushing a trt.k in one of Swift & Co.'s cellars; It was loaded with hams, and the poor fellow was scarcely able to stir it on the level floor. He came to a slight Incline and could not get it up, and the boss fell upon him and pounded.him out of the place. I presume that he was "firing" him. Another and stronger man took his place. COMPELLED TO VISIT SALOONS. One of the things pointed out in the President's report is that the men are provided with no places to eat. It is difficult to imagine what this means in the winter time. I saw them crouching in the stairways of the packing houses and outside under the sheds to get away from the falJg snow. In conversation with one of the packers I spoke of the horribly low wages that were paid to the men, and he answered that there was no use in paying any more, because the balance went to the I. OGDEN 'ARMOUR. TWO PROMINENT MEN IN THE saloon keeper. My reply was that for one thing I had observed that the com panies pay their men in checks, and that saloons are the most convenient places in which these can be cashed; and that also as a consequence of the lack of dining-rooms the men are liter ally compelled to resort to the saloons In winter. The packer then dropped the subject Prior to the last strike in Chicago the union officers made a computation, based upon- ten thougand time checks, and found that the average weekly wage in Packingtown was between $5 and $6; since the strike, conditions have of course grown worse. A friend of mine who has recently been making investigationfs for mne stated that he stood in a saloon on a Saturday night and gathered up the pay envelopes of the men as they came in and got their ohecks cashed. He collected over a score, and the average was less than $4; there were some as low as $1.70. This represented a week's wages for an ableboCed man in Packingtown at a dull season. FROM T HE BE EF TRUST REPORT. Extract From Neill-Reynlolds Docu * ent Which the President Sent to Congress "An absence of cleanliness was found everywhere in the handling of meat being prepa.red for the various meat food products. * * * "As an extreme example of the en tire disregard on the part of employes of any notion of cleanliness in handling dressed meat, we saw a hog that had just been killed, cleaned, washed, and started on its way to the cooling room tal from the slidinse rail to a dirt2 wooden floor and slide part way into a filthy men's toilet. It was picked up by two employes, placed upon a truck, carried into the cooling room and hung up with other carcasses, no effort being made to clean it. * * * "In another establishment, equally well known, a long table was noted covered with several hundred pounds of cooked scraps of beef and other meats. Some of these meat scraps were dry, leathery, and unfit to be eaten; and in the heap were found pieces of pig-skin, and even some bits of rope strands and other rubbish. Inquiry evoked the frank admission from the man in charge that this was to be ground up and used in making 'potted Home-made Bone Fertilizer. Everyone with a large gardei has an out-of-the-way place for fertilizers where a "bone barrel" could be placed. To reduce bones to fertilizer without the use of acids takes time,. #it for the home garden it is well worth wait ing for. Put in a barrel three or four nches of soil, then a closely packed Layer of bones, broken up somewhat, ind cover these with wood ashes and wet with liquid manure from the SHELTERED CRATES USE POULTRY STUF stables, if possible, or with plain water strengthened with 10 cents worth of washing ammonia. Repeat the layers as there are bones enough until the barrel Is full. Cover with soil, rounding the surface, and sow with lover or grass seed, or plant the top with some plant that will knit the soil together as a cover, that will not let through much moisture. In a year's UPTON SNCLAI. BFTUPT INCLTIAIN. tiempty the barrel, spade the con tents together, make into a heap, and let it stand for a month, then use as wanted. Country Autoing on A0 *~ T~ An isW p9R PROFITS IN( CHICKENS. Crate and Machine Fattening Bring the Highest Prices. T. F. McGrew. Some time since we published an article on poultry growing North and West, and referred to the large num ber of fowls that are grown upon the wheat fields of the Northwest and which are purchased and shipped in to the big ~packing establishments of Kansas City and other western centres. The packers of the west have estab-4 lished enormous finishing plants, as they are called, for the feeding, fat ianing and preparing of poultry of all kinds for market. The fowls here are re ceived in large numbers, placed in coops that hold from three to five birds, according to their size, and are "trough-fed"-that is, they are fed a mixture of ground meals properly pre pared in troughs, and permitted to eat as much as they will consume, from three to five times per day. Poultry crate-fattened in this way will continue to eat well and thrive from nine to twelve days. So soon as they cease to feed themselves raven ously from these troughs, what is known as the cramming machine is brought into service. The manipulator of the cramming machine must have experience in the handling and feed ing of the fowls in this way. The f t f r t t s f t s t t ERS AT WORK. f fee truho hme lcduo th ylne csfle ihtepoel t cramin machnte iser compsed f a fered trough orthamtber pntoate upon ofthe to fw a the.lged o a TabEsi CRmight IS alld EXPET ,ae Theuoerattop, pachredo the cam-ter h cylinde the fils with the poopeto P pr;e pfoacnd th tbe pressure M fthot yon the leverp tewadIsn foed hrogilh the tube Int th ropur of the fowt lway aagn h muts Teorertor the chrge by the cram- f whis brnrffeing thslsfo care on to mk the placire tero tub fedon from 1 troat beyon theimedwhen tfowrs al he cofils teaefor ailig prer C ofthtie oarrives, gaugey te amoeed i foed dry-pickero andplae andoe p: Thisoo maeus of fin tis arrie ont orei a sufiietuofmerl of dasra to knos t theor tm hen heirowls at refinhedaready frulng. Wascon b< this tmeddivs, mtxey wath speeilyd killed ry-piced, n aed ropersh Thmie food i made use of for this pu-i oirs 12 to14tday fo melof eerang p kuins ti confri o the rowlsuaet i gilk anopeto water to vr drinas where they can help themselves. So pg soon as they show a disposition to F stop feeding themselves, all the food, Ic water and grit Is removed from the trough, and the stuffing machine Is brought Into service. The same meals 13 mixed into a gruel are used for this purpose, the food forced into the crop b: fi: the Glorious Fourth. 1 i p '-.I a ai (/(POP . s2 fl'~ /Po 16 BASEBALL PAID UTFITS - /"Itou BE Ao 4 . oE ~FfE E TO 60y0& . 32 E Outit s P van Belt. Wai n 1t rivithd each cil aeye a rou the s hr d has comb!nto leelc rns tey o n a. desi 5 fre action. Aeltand Ca yo omi, .. Motn oewith eaufigt m alch ie c it conition, and song waer orsk gri aeir ies gives thefol's ditt s eriodtio seiiqi f BestYOU and Xost OompleteBasbsfl Outfits. and givenfor selling ony mo sure h h =te' W01 =8e4testI imroeent. ith the stuffing machine in a semi rid condition, and no water or gri -hatever is given to the fowls durin >us period, the semi-liquid food fur ishing sufficient moisture for thi reatest improvement. GREAT GAIN IN WEIGHT AND QUALITY. Fowls that are fed In this way gail nrgely In weight For instance, Dwl placed in the coop weighing thre ounds and a quarter, bones, feather rd offal, would weigh from cne an half to two pounds more when fin ,;ed, adding in this way two pound. f edible meat to the carcass, and 4 nproving the entire carcass as to ad rom three to four cents per pound t :s value over that of poultry of tha Id not so well finished. Thus, a fow , eighing three pounds and a quarter rrth 9 cents per ound, would sell fo irty ceits as it came from th ange. The same fowl, after being fe ree weeks, would weigh five and i uarter pounds and sell for twelvi ents a pound at the lowest calcula aon, which would be 63 cents for th ame carcass, aft~er having been fei Dr three weeks. The estimate place pon the cost of feeding is about tel )twelve cents per head. Wat is kno n as the yellow inned or yellow-meated poultry rime favorite In the markets of th ountry. To intensify and beandt 2a richness of these colors, meal mad mm yellow cor is largely used th 2e process of fattening. For thi dsglsh market, which Is largel itered to by these packers, fow athe wit coor o fsa w ulryd Tinhdofatensiyad iov this gloue ofat meatrom wterni aed smhine fatned celtrma lty oal th hihesast prier cent eltsent tlow isark edt. oh Th peuatin ofptryt condni utr acas.fw that porhrinero speei msgant be medssfuly meattened )uyfinisherftned in thiswa.Olthwe awn lafy ncoo solien eat wepoit loburae- ffsattere d imprough it rat and mchracero fateed pOner s fodrst theohs richl ell ofhe )cs fhadigpultry senttothiJe rpoe, fcthpor hcnor succerior Where ns canno boe anduncesly fatend finaed inori aet pOly thenished thrifnne semsta besirablt, thyinrate-fattened and imrovd.i [npcing ofo andling poultr foesi is well dold12e and 48 fiihedkend arades for f.ret oltr alfne thi anegh Ith mtesalea arinc or arket, squre boxehs n Is of great advantage in selling. rmers and country people generally se a large amount of profit through c carelessness in dressing and send their fowls to market. When nice graded and selected, all of one kind a package, both eggs and poultry -ing the highest prices. It is the nest quality that makes the profit In ~ultry growing. This Is what the .rge packing houses, which handle andreds of thousands of fowls in this ay, aim to make of all they fatten. Cultivation or Garden Crops. Frequent shallow eultivation should employed, for most garden crops, d during dry weather the depth iould not exceed 2 inches. By keep igthe surface soil well stirred whal termed a "-dust mulch" is formed, d while this layer of finely pulver. d soil will become quite dry, it pre ts the escape of moisture througt e pores of the soil. A mulch con sting of fine manure, clippings fromi e lawn, or any similar material, iread to a distance of 10 or 12 inches ound the plants will preserve the oisture; but the mulch should not be heavy or matted as to exclude the A crust forming over the soil after rain or watering is detrimental te ant growth and should be broken up soon as the land can be worked determine when the soil is suf 'iently dry for cultivation, apply the me test of squeezing together in the d as is utilized in determining whet plow. Sandy soils can be worked uch sooner than clay soils after a in. Too much importance cannot placed upon the matter of thorough ultivaton of .the garden, and if the ork is promptly and properly done iere will be little difficulty in con oling weeds. 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