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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    whole day without being cleaned. Care must only be taken to see that the openings for the gas to escape are not choked with splinters of bone. This, however, can be done with very little trouble. The particular kind of powder employed is such that the brain acquires no kind of taste from it. A point which is of importance as concerning its general utility is that the same apparatus can be used for small and large cattle, the strength of the charge alone being altered. Quite recently, with a view to increasing the penetra- tion of the bolt, Behr has reverted to the reliable old circular cutting-edge, similar to what we find used with the ordinary slaughtering-mask. The bolt contains a passage for. the gas, so that when the shot is fired the gas forces its way through the bolt into the brain. This arrangement renders the pistol somewhat shorter and thicker, and therefore handier to use. The return of the bolt has been also materially improved. In addition to this, the inventor has added a new and practical contrivance in the shape of a muzzle-rest with foot- plate, which makes it possible to use the same apparatus for all kinds of cattle, since the rest prevents the bolt penetrating too deeply when used with small animals. The plate also makes it easier to hold the apparatus steady. In its present form this apparatus will doubtless be very popular, and all the more so because its workman- ship may be described as first-rate. Slaughtering-Hall for Pigs. A further insight into the internal arrangements of the abattoir is obtained by visiting the slaughter-hall for pigs. In constructing this building regard must be had to