Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service.
About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1906)
BEEF TRUST METHODS. THOISASBS OF HUM AS BEINGS GRoixn nows in bitiless CORPORA T/OSS. Inhumnn Trcatmi'nt of Men and Women Who Arc f orced to Work In (.n-at establishments.— ln Low est Depth* of Misery. By Uno.N Sinclair. <N< w York World .) It Is literally the truth that the pack ers treat, their men like rings. There la no place in all Packingtown where the Hllghtest consideration Is shown for a human being. They are com pelled to he on hand at. a certain hour in the morning, 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 he on hand the ; bosses will start them tip before thej whistles blow, and cheat them that way. If they are working overtime anil do not. make a full hour, even though they full by only five minutes they get nothing for it. If any error Is marie 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 eondltlons In Packingtown have reached their present state of dr-grad ation by the natural process of com petition, or rut her, 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 bt-lngs are eomlng there. There has been a regular pro cession r»f the races through Parking town: the Industry was founded by skilled cattle butchers from Germany; then they began the Importing of Irish men. After the strike of 181*4 they set to w-ork deliberately to crowd the ittlsir market so as to prevent further trou bles; first they brought Poles, then Bohemians, then Lithuanians, and now flnnlly Slovaks. Those 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 bent them and kick them and spit In their faces. I saw sights of this sort which fairly made my blood boil, I saw a t>oor, wretched Lithuanian pushing a truck In one of Swift & Co.’s cellars; It was loaded with hams, and the imor fellnw- 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, f presume that he was "tiring" him. Another and stronger man took Ids place. COMPELLED TO VISIT SALOONS. One of the tilings 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 falling 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 df 3. 0»!l»K\ AliMorU. TWO I'ItOMIM'NT MA N IN’ TIIK saloon keeper. My reply was that for one thing 1 hail observed that the com panics 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. Trior to the last strike In Chicago the union officers made a computation, based upon ten thousand time chocks, and found that the average weekly wage In Paeklngtown "as between »s and s•<: since the strike, conditions have of course grown worse A friend or mine who has recently been making Investigations for me stated that h< stood in n saloon on a Saturday nigh and gathered tip the pay envelopes of the men as they came in and got tmlr checks cashed. He collected over a score, and the average was loss than ft there were some as low as Jl.it This represented a week s wages for an able-bodied man in Paeklngtown at a dull season. FhO.M THE REEF TRVST REPORT. E (tract from Neill-Keynolds Docu ment Which the President Sent to Congress. “An absence of cleanliness was found everywhere in the handling of me.tt being prepared for the various moat food products. * * * “As an extreme example of the en tire disregard on the t«»rt 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 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-akin, and even some hits 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 ham.”’ Home made Bone Fertilizer. Everyone with a large garden has an out-of-the-way place for fertilizers where a “bone barrel” could l»e placed. To reduee hones to fertilizer without the use of fields takes time, but for the home garden it is well worth wait ing for. J’ut In a barrel three or four inches of soil, then a closely packed layer of bones, broken up somewhat, ami cover these with wood ashes and wet with liquid manure from the SHELTERED CRATES USED FOR CRATE-FATTENING. Put I.TKY STUFFERS AT WORK. stables. If possible, or with plain water strengthened with Jo cents worth of washing ammonia. Repeat the layers as there arc hones enough until the barrel is full. Cover with soil, rounding the surface, and sow with clover 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 T’PTON SlNt'l AIR E UKKF Tl!l ST INVKSTiII ATION. time empty the barrel, spade the eon tents together, make into a heap, and let it stand for a month, then use as wanted. ■ Country Autoing on the Glorious Fourth. wron^. : » PROFITS IS CHICKENS. i 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 -1 her 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 lished enormous finishing plants, as ■ they are called, for the feeding, fat tening and preparing of poultry of all kinds for market. Thefowlshere are re ceived In large numbers, placed in coops that hold from throe 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 cat well and thrive from nine to twelve days. So soon as they cease to feed themselves raven- I ously from these troughs, what is j 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 cramming machine is composed of a feed trough or chamber placed upon the top of a three-legged, movable table, as it might he called, with a plunger in the top, placed there after the cylinder is filled with the properly prepared food, and with the pressure of the foot upon ttie lever, the food is forced through the tulie into the crop of the fowl. THE CRAMMER IS AN EXPERT. The operator In charge of the cram ming machine has several assistants who briug the fowls from the coop to him; he placing the tube down the throat beyond the windpipe towards the crop, tills the same by a pressure of the foot, always gauging the amount forced into the crop by the hand pressure upon it. This manner of feeding Is carried on for n sufficient number of days to make the entire period of feeding from 19 to 21 days. An experienced handler knows just the time when the fowls are finished ready for killing. When this time arrives, they are speedily killed, dry-picked, and placed in proper condition for market. The food made use of for this pur (Hise is a mixture of meals of several kinds, to conform to the requirements of the market. Ground oats, corn and middlings, mixed with boiled milk or water Into a very dry mash or mixed food is made use of for the first 12 to 14 days for trough feeding. During this period, the fowls have grit and plenty of water to drink where they can help themselves. So soon ns they show a disposition to stop feeding themselves, all the food, water and grit is removed from the trough, and the stuffing machine is brought into service. The same meals mixed into a gruel are used for this i purpose, the food forced into the crop BIG B*SEB«LLf=TU . 1 yJ) ||l k*iH J1 11 P Sh\ SOL, rufF| E ES OUTFITS £ j THIS CHINA SET FREE TO ANYONE ( fmjwfep ¥ N W, liif V \\ Thin handsome China Pet consists of 1 Large Meat Platter. 6 Platen. <5 ]■ ‘ •ir Trn rWI 1 U Oops, 6 Saucer*. 1 Sugar Howl and 1 Cream Pitcher for family use. Each fl/”l ,r\ II piece ha* a handsome colored Floral Decoration and is given for polling ) a.M jM, ~ V \ J 111# 'wC im \t 11 - * M M*l liill 1J *X*J llMllJlHul l*i uU This Parasol Is 24 Inches Wld« HE Hemstitch! I h«’ Sto H ■■ rprr to nov<s x 2 Extra Large, high grade, special make, Hemstitch- gi,™ it iija oew design, made «- ■>| Thi» a?* Ootflt oon. -u orpmta, ed Handkerchiefs which we deliver free, without ad- with I vance payment or deposit Sell them for us at only roc H 99 e'»iirpa.i-tcd .sroanA the h i«. shirt each and wewill ship you free of all expense costly and Bn .i P i n k<-a. Earh is fitted with a tons natu ■ - desirable premiums or your choice from our list of Dia- tal wmdatirk. fi n n | '» r he ;! n » ro ;^ t th g*S P l' t K h ht H IB 'i ori 'wwa l tnond Rings, Rifles,Watches, Cameras, Silk Shawls. Lace w „<». white or pink. ind wiiu* aentfreeof M J1 8t oonaiating of’ ;<ren« wir#’ Maa'k. Curtains, etc. We take back what is unsold and reward lLi£ I ■ and Molt Complete Baseball Outfit*, and easily sold. Premiums delivered oromptly. SENT Os Turquoise or Amythlst Gradual#* givcnforaell.ng only 32 of onr high n .. - Na « rdoadway Bead Necklace a* a special premium witk with the stuffing machine in a semi fluid condition, and no water or grit whatever is given to the fowls during this period, the semi-liquid food fur nishing sufficient moisture for the greatest Improvement. GREAT GAIN IN WEIGHT AND QUALITY. Fowls that are fed in this way gain largely in weight. For instance, a fowl placed in the coop weighing three pounds and a quarter, bones, feathers and offal, would weigh from one and a half to two pounds more when fin ished. adding in this way two pounds of edible meat to the carcass, and so Improving the entire carcass as to add from three to four eents per pound to its value over that of poultry of that kind not so well finished. Thus, a fowl weighing three pounds and a quarter, worth 9 cents per pound, would sell for thirty cents as it came from the range. The same fowl, after being fed three weeks, would weigh five and a quarter pounds and sell for twelve cents a pound .‘it the lowest calcula tion, which would tie 93 cents for the same carcass, after having been fed for three weeks. The estimate placed upon the cost of feeding is about ten to twelve cents per head. What is known as the yellow skinned or yellow-meated poultry Is prime favorite in the markets of this country. To intensify and beautify the richness of these colors, meal made from yellow corn is largely used in the process of fattening. For the English market, which is largely catered to by these packers, fowls having the white color of flesh are pre ferred. To intensify and improve this, ground oats, meal from white corn, and some finely ground rice is made use of. To add luster, finish and quality to all these, a small per cent, of melted tallow is mixed into the warm mash, and fed in a semi-liquid state the last four or five days of feed ing. The fattening of poultry with corn adds fatty globules throughout the entire carcass. A fowl that has beeu fattened with corn is usually what might be termed greasy meat, whi’e poultry finished or fattened in tills way lays on close or solid meat with no globules of fat scattered through it. Crate and machine fattened poultry sells for the highest prices of any poultry sent to market. A peculiarity In these conditions is the fact that poor or inferior speci mens cannot be successfully fattened or finished in this way. Only the well grown’thrifty specimens can be profit ably crate-fattened and improved in weight and character of flesh. One must understand thoroughly well the process of handling poultry for this purpose, or he cannot succeed. Where it is well done and nicely finished and prepared for market, poultry finished in this manner is the most desirable, both in this country and abroad. PACKING FOR MARKET. In packing for market, square boxes ] that will hold 12. 24 and 4S chickens j are made use of. Fowls all of one ' size and weight with the same ap pearance are packed in one box. Ttiis plan is of great advantage in selling. Farmers and country people generally lose a large amount of profit through the carelessness in dressing and send | ing their fowls to market. When nice ly graded and selected, all of one kind in a package, both eggs and poultry bring the highest prices. It is the finest quality that makes the profit in poultry growing. This is what the large packing houses, which handle tundreds of thousands of fowls in this way, aim to make of all they fatten.— Cultivation of Garden Crops. Frequent shallow cultivation should he employed for most garden crops, and during dry weather the depth should not exceed 2 inches. By keep ing the surface soil well stirred what is termed a "dust mulch" is formed, and while this layer of finely pulver ized soil will become quite dry. it pre vents the escape of moisture through the pores of the soil. A mulch con sisting of fine manure, clippings from the lawn, or any similar material, spread to a distance of 10 or 12 inches around the plants will preserve the moisture; but the mulch should not be so heavy or matted as to exclude the air. A crust forming over the soil after a rain or watering is detrimental to plant growth and should be broken up as soon as the land can be worked. ■To determine when the soil is suf ficiently dry for cultivation, apply the same test of squeezing together in the hand as is utilized in determining when to plow. Sandy soils can lie worked much sooner than clay soils after a min. Too much importance cannot jbo placed upon the matter of thorough cultivation of the garden, and if the work is promptly and properly done there will tie little difficulty in con trolling weeds. P|TC tVrwanwMty UttTWt No lit* or perr. qafter i | I 1 O flnrt ilayN nmr of I>r KUw’f «)rwt N«rr«? I Ftonr. Send for FREE #lot> trtal bottle and Umiiae CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. MALE HELP WANTED. ADVERTISING men adept in writing copy are Bought for constantly. We need such men at once. Salaries s9ob-f25( 0. Write us to-day. HAPGOODS Suite 143, 305-309 Broadway, N. Y. AN EXPERIENCED NURSERY Salesman, also a man to learn the business. Salary or Commission. Pan-American Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. WANTED: A Hundred Firemen and Brakemen on different railroads. Age 20 to 30 good sight and hearing. Experience unnecessary- Firemen flO monthly. become Engineers and earn S2OO- Brake men S7O monthly, become Conductors and earn $l5O. Positions awaiting competent men. Send stamps for, particulars. Name position preferrad. Railway Association, Room 05. 227 Monroe Street, Brooklyn N. Y. WANTED: Amateur photographs suitable for art and advertising subjects. Mail print and price with postage for return if not accepted, to The Geo. R. Lawrence Company, 274 Wabash Ave., Chicago SALESMEN TO SELL the largest line of souvenir post cards in the country. Also large line of adver tising fans. Excellent side line. Good Commission and Prompt settlement. Alfred Holzman, Pub lisher, 310 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. MEN & BOVS WANTED to learn the Plumbing Trade. Complete the course in 2or 3 months. .lu niors earn from $3 to $4 per day. With 6 months’ experience outside, you can join the Union and de mand $4 to $5 per day. Catalogue sent free. Union Plumbing School, 103 W. 29th St., New York. LADIES’ APPAREL. "shirtwaist holder keeps waist down all around : no pins or hooks to tear: send 25c. with waist measurement over corset and ask for white or black. Felix Corset Co., 131 Prince St., New York. fffni n^^lT l il ? i* ti WEWILL CIVE I :[ \ AXnim ELY FREE this Reliable Repeating Air fl which shoots 250 times without reload inland being madeof , best grade of steel, finely nickel-elated, except the stock, which is made of solid walnut, is just the thing for small game or target practice ;orthis3Hfoot long, 4 drawer ■ i u . *rl, /BTPs *. AchroruatioTelescope.wh ich has a body of French morroco, finely polished metal joints B y\!f i)/JJ Tl and dust caps and is fitted with imported lenses through which yon can see objects fl x£? fl miles away; or this elegantly engraved stem wind and stem set, Ameri- B / w€»< ,^Pv, Vw fl cau matie an< i guaranteed "Gold” Watch, which is not a pocket '» 1 f jj fl H clock, but a watch equal in appearance and time keeping qualities jt&S&ci j M 12 to a dollar gold watch; or this Reliable Camera and complete >ir rRvX printing and developing outfit, including dry plates, etc., for sell- B ■ B| B rj • l ifl ‘ 'J|tw.w VV ing 24 of our handsome jewelry novelties at 10c each. These novel- Bwy 'BB lI «r Npfc’ ft&M tiHfl are positively the best and handsomest ever offered and are ■■ ' M. 'w.’.ThTXswl bound td sen at sight. Everyoneof your friends wi 11 be glad to buy E& ML '?Gv/»iVi oneor more from you asthey aresocheap at theprice. JUST SEND BKcfc® yjk|-i </ HI fl l/l \ VOUR NAME and we wi 11 send them to you by mail, postpaid. When WftaQSg*&&y' * WM B )l J Wj sold, send the f 2.40 you receive and we will send yon FREE your {Bwaa&CE&p->‘ Wfl choice of above articles the same day we receive your remittance. W I e have other premiums in onr list if you do not want the above, - w fl Write u » today. DItKXKL MFfl. CO., DEPT. IQT CHICAGO. mSxMamH^SZSS/ This ELEGANT Watch $3 Jii -r> ’ 5 Buforu you buy » w»tch cut this out sod wad to us with your o*ms sad address, and we will send you by express LE°' for examltiitlon* handsome WATCH AND CHAIN C. O. D. *3.75 Jn '' / 49l huntlns cese. bnutlfully engraved stem wind end i,e<n set. fitted with * rlofcly jeweled Yemen? and jruirenteed » oorrect timekeeper, with long Gold Plsted chain for L*d!ee or vest chain for Gents. 1 f y° u consider it equal to any f fi GOLD I riLLFD WATCH warranted 2(1 YEARS th * eI P rB9B •wn* 13.75 and It Is yours. Our 2 (l year guarantee sent with each watch. Mention ,f y° u w4nt Q«nts’ or Ladles’ six* Address H FARBKK A CO., A113,23 QulnrySt ,CHIC Ati<* Gray Hair Restored. fib, “WALNUTTA HAIR STAIN” Restores Gray, Streaked or Bleached Hair or Moustache fi* Instantaneously. Gives any shade from Light Brown to Block. Trade Docs not w ash or rub off. Con- M&rk tains no poisons and is not sticky _ nor greasy. Sold by all druggists, or we will send you a Trial Size for 80e., posptaid, large size (eight times as much) 60c. If your druggist don t sell it send direct to us. Send the yellow wrapper from two bottles purchased from a druggist and we will give you a full-size bottle for nothing. WALNUTTA CO., 1405-R Olive St,, St. LouU, Mo. The Great San Francisco Disaster I SHOWN IN NATURAL COLORS From Actual Photographs Taken on tht Spot During the Conflagration Greatest Opportunity You Will Ever Have to Secure a Set of 25 Colored Stereoscope Views. rT*O the thousands who have taken advantage of our previous offer J. and have secured one of our stereoscope premiums, as well as to other thousands who have stereoscopes received from other sources We make the folio-wing Special Offer : * We have made arrangements with one of the largest publishers of stereoscope views in the country to furnish a set of twenty-five magnifi cently colored s Photographic Views of the San Francisco Disaster which, when viewed through the stereoscope, bring everv feature out in the most startling and realistic detail, presenting most vividlv the scenes of destruction in the city stricken bv earthquake and fire Yn such remarkable pictures, true to life and all but living, can be secured m any other way. and we are the first to be able to offer these views to the general public. There is already a tremendous dematid for these views but we are prepared to supply all orders promptly. We do not offer these views tor sale, bat give them away as premiums for getting subscriptions for “OPPORTUNITY,” our beautiful, attractive instructive and entertaining monthly magazine The Handsomest and Best 50 Cent Magazine in America. To all who have obtained a stereoscope on our former offer and to all who have a stereoscope ot any make, we will send a set of twentv-five colored views ot the ban Francisco disaster, postage paid, on the fdllow mg terms: .01-. **' uun Absolutely free for securing: two subscriptions to “ Opportunity « at 50 cents each, or one subscription at o 0 cents and 25 cents additional y tS To those who have no stereoscope we will furnish a good stereoscope terms- tWenty ‘ five baa Franclsco views, postage paid, on the following (&naui ’ ° r ° ne fcftSSSJKWSSi request. 1 ° D * *>PJ - j OPPORTUNITY,” 279 Dearborn Street, Chicago REAL ESTATE. _ 20 ACRE TRACTS CHOICEST fruit and farm land (oil the Gulf Coast Highlands In Alabama) for SSO cash and 45 monthly instalments of $lO each (in. ('.per cent). Crops nay $75 tos2soan acre a year. Remark ably healthful. Send for booklet. Irvington Land Co.. I*4 I-a Salle St., Chicago, 111. WANTED: WICHITA FKOPKRTY Lands In Southwest Kansas. What have you for sale? 22 years buying and selling Kansas dirt. ( holce F. 40 acres near Garden City. sf>,4oo. Y rite E. I. Spencer. 115 S. Lawrence Ave., Wichita, Kansas. CALIFORNIA COLONIZATION LANDS. Tracts of 2000 to 20,000 acres; low prices; easy terms: level, rich, alluvial soil; abundance of water; best climate on earth. U. L. Dike Investment Cp. (Inc.) 231 Mason Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. COUNTRY PROPERTY ONLY—EVERYWHERE Farms, residences, hotels, stores, etc. Catalog Free to intending buyers. Owners wishing to sell call or write at once. Phillips & Wells, 95X Tribune Building, New York. BUSINESS EQUIPMENT. < ALIGRAPH TYPEWRITER SIO.OO. Remington. Yost, Densmore A Jewett, $15.00 each. Electric Commercial Graphaphone Outfit, new taper-arm disc phonograph cheap. Edison Mimeograph 110.0(1 O. Hacker, 2 Park Pi., rL Y. BOOK-KEEPERS—Keep out of trouble. Remove blots and incorrect entries w ithout scratching Our Eradlcator never fails. Send 25c. for bottle. Best terms to Agents. H. A. Ink Eradlcator Co., lJou Washington Ave., New York. MISCELLANEOUS. VALUABLE SCARF PINS absolutely protected by our patented thief proof “ Simplex Pin Guard. Ask dealer or send 25 cents to-day for gold plated sample. H. Ryplnski, 142 West 305th Street, New York. My magazine, INVESTING FOR PROFIT, which I*ll send FREK, Is worth 910 a copy , H to any man who tends to Invest any money, however email; who has money In vested unprofltably; or who can save 95.00 or jl more per month, hut who hasn’t learned the art of Investing for profit. It demonstrates the REAL earning power of money—the knowledge financiers and bankers hide from the masses. It shows how to Invest small sums and how ■■ to make them grow Into fortunes—the actual possibilities of intelligent Investments. <O9 It reveals the enormous profits bankers make and shows how one can make the same profits safely. It explains ROW stupendous fortunes are aI made and WHY they are made —how f],ooo 9 grows to 922,000. To Introduce my magazine, write me NoW mention this paper and I*ll send It SIX MONTHS FREE. <99 EDITOR GREGORY, 420- 7 7 Jackson Roul., Chicago jf
