Our slaughter-house system : a plea for reform / [C. Cash].

  • Cash, C.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Our slaughter-house system : a plea for reform / [C. Cash]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is used as hair and fragments of bone may clog the sharpened end and lessen its cutting power. Now and then, also, the groove in the metal plate should be greased. The wooden mallet should have both faces perfectly flat, and without holes, which might cause it to slip off the head of the bolt. The striking-bolt apparatus has been employed for smaller cattle in many abattoirs with remarkable success. BANNEAU MASK. Calves and sheep allow the bolt to be applied to the forehead without difficulty. One slaughterman holds the bolt in the proper place—with calves, in the middle of the forehead ; with sheep, at the apex of the skull, almost between the ears—and a second assistant strikes the head of the bolt with the mallet, which drives it into the skull and produces immediate insensibility. In the case of pigs, the Kleinschmidt hammer with spring-bolt, and the lever-bolt hammer made by Blum- haus, of Vohwinkel, have proved most satisfactory. If the 11