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Swift's Premium Ham
Swift's Premium Bacon
Swift's Premium Sliced Bacon
Swift's Premium Lard
Swift's Premium
Milk-Fed Chickens
Swift's Premium Butterine
Brookfield Pork Sausage
Brookfield Butter
Brookfield Eggs
Swift's Silver Leaf Lard
Swift's Jewel Compound
Swift's Cotosuet
Swift's Jersey Butterine
Swift's Beef Extract
Swift's Beef Fluid.
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Scented Toilet Soap
Crown Princess Toilet Soap
Swift's Pride Soap
Swift's Pride Washing
Powder
Wool Soap
SWIFT & COS NEW HOME
Splendid Plant of Brick and Concrete
Towers to Sky.
LATEST AND BEST IN METHODS
"Nanltatlon" (lie Watokworil and
'''Cleanliness" the Wr In
Thla Great Modern Scien
tific Abbatolr.
The latent and best that the science of
modern sanitary construction knows has
been embodied In the abattoir of Swift &
Company of South Omaha. Externally It Is
but a towering cliff of brick and con
crete. Within, despite the nun of ma
chinery and process that attend the utili
zation of the animal products, the building
Is hard y less simple In the general plan
of construction. Each of the six floors Is
peculiarly so constructed that they can
be flushed with water over every square
Inch and perfectly drained. Thla Is accom
plished without tho use of any guttering.
Each floor is then a much exagger
ated funnel, sloping toward the center
from every point. "Sanitation," that is
the word. Everything In the plant points
to that one effort to keep clean, for dirt
and decay mean loss.
This structure was completed in July 'aat,
' and has been in use but a few months.
It Is about the last word when it comes to
reeuforced concrete construction. The en
tire building is one so id continuous piece
of artificial stone. There are no cracks
and seams. It Is ull Just one piece, as much
as though hewn out of a mountain of
granite.
Mechanically the plant embodies the
fruits of many years of experience in the
packing business. An Interesting bit of
economy Is In the utilization the force of
gravity In performing every possible pro
cess. The killing Is done on the top floor,
under the clear bright sunlight shining
through acres of glass. Prom that floor
downward the carcasses keep traveling
until they tumble out of the coolers into
the cars below, finished products.
"Yes, gravity Is a great help," remarked
John Patterson, general superintendent of
the plant of Swift & Company down in
South Omaha. "You see gravity eitn al
ways be depended upon to be on the Job
every morning, never tired, never kicks,
nothing to do but work."
At this plant tho kll'ing floor in unique
among the packing plants of the world.
Each animal Is killed on the top floor.
The problems of sanitation attending this
department are solved all at once, In Just
one place. Eleven thousand animals a day
can be put through the abattoir.
The loading docks of the Swift plant
furnish a good study In efficiency. Cars
are loaded there at tho rate of one every
seven and ono-hulf minutes. Twenty-three
cars can he loaded at the same time at
this dock. Thus an entire train load of
packing house products can be loaded, iced,
billed for shipment and started on their
way across the continent in about three
hours. That can be done by the regu'ar
and ordinary operation of the system, a
much better record might be made if they
would hurry aguinst time.
There are several acres of refrigerators
in the big Swift plant that attract the
attention of tho visitors. "Just ten below,"
comfortingly teassuied a guide, who con
sulted a thermometer while waiting for
the elevator.
That happens to be the lowest tempera
ture needed, they could Just as well drop
It many degrees lower If desired Some
miles of ammonia colls generate the cold,
or more scientifically speaking, absorb the
heat. The cold of this refrigerator Is,
however, altogether too positive a reality
to be described according to the high
school physics definition as the absence of
heat.
The big beef coolers alone have a
capacity for nearly 3,000 steers. For two
days the side of beef hangs In the coolers.
Then they are hurried into the freezing
room whore under the effect of the low
temperature they become as hard and
brittle as glass. The beef as it hangs in
long avenues of rosy pink and pearl
tinted meats Is an appetizing spectacle.
The average kill of catt'.e per week in
the Swift plant at South Omaha is 4.000
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head. As many as 1.000 steers a day can,
however, be converted Into dressed beef
ready for the table. At the same time an
equal number of sheep can be handled,
while lu,0flO hogs are weekly put through
the abattoir.
In the matter of statistics the Swift
plant has some interesting figure to pre
sent. The single item of wooden boxes
for the packing of meats runs Into some
thousands of dollars annually. Seven hun
dred and forty thousand boxes are ued
each twelve months. For the same period
75,000 barrels and tierces are required for
packing purposes
The purity and fitness of the Swift pro
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INSPECTING UEEF CUTS AT 1HS PLANT OF SWIFT AND COM PAN i".
ucts Is assured by the watchfulness of
a corps of twentythree government In
spectors and veterinarians. There Is one
expert to every department. The car
casses they reject are destined to the
fertilizer works. There la no appeal from
their decision. They must say whether or
not an animal Is fit for food. The
stringency of their tests becomes the more
apparent when It is considered that these
same animals have passed the examina
tions of several Inspectors during their
Journeys through the stock yards before
they are admitted to the killing pens.
The Swift plant comprises twenty-three
acifH of ground, of which about a third
is covered by buildings. These buildings I
contain nearly thirty acres of floor space,
giving room to hundreds of office desks
and buzzing machines.
The power plant alone would be ample
to light a large village. Big. throbbing
engines are delivering about 2,0HO-haie
powt r. Ti hundred and ten kilowatts of
ilccuic energy are consumed by the Incan
desce, its and the humming motors. All
this power means the consumption of
42,KM tons of coal each year the output of
a small mine.
The curing processes of the bacon and
ham departments require ii.201) tons of salt
and H.iK'i poundj of sussr per year.
A distinctive feature of the Swift 4.
Co. organization is the Employes'
Dent lit association,." This association Is
a sort of mutual protective organisation.
Each employe is entitled to membership
and a vole In the affairs of the Insurance
company. It is conducted under the
patronage of Swift Sc Co. The
company pays all the expenses of tliu in
surance oi gamzailuTi, jncKMlng salaries or
clerks and officers requliid The pack
ing company ttlso stands back of the in
surance funds with a piomlse to make
good any deficit and injure against the In
ability to meet benefits due. The Insur
ance uttered is graded on a scale which
varies with the value of the services of the
insured employe to the company. The
fees are but nominal. The Insuranoe af
forded is for accident, sickness and death.
This feature has proven highly attractive
to foreign laborers, who see In the insur-
iance a protecting sympathetio spirit on the
IjNirt of the employer.
FATHER TIME FIRST FLYER
Fleeting Moments Deal It by Speed
Varying with life One
Leeds.
"Well, say! Do you know what strikes
me this morning?" Bald Mr. Qraytop.
"It's the flight of time.
"Now there's a flying marhlno that
never gets out of order, never anything
the matter with It at all: never breaks a
wing or. drops a propeller or gets out of
gasolene, Just keeps a plugging and a
plugging and a plugging and a plugging.
Ii's the only real perpotuil motion, and
bearing,
steadily
It never ho much as heats a
though It keeps ull the time
speeding tip.
"And do you know that that's a very
curious thing about time Its apparent
variations of speed? To different people
it may seem to have different rates of
speed, and to different people, according
to their age or to circumstances, it may
have many different rates of speed all at
the some time, or it may even seem to
have different rates of speed to one per
son at the same time.
"To me if is galloping, fairly galloping,
and the sound of Its lioofbeats comes to
me louder and louder this morning with
thoughts of the declinng year. Here I've
hardly got used to wrltng 1909 y'et, but
before I know it I'll have to begin writ
ing 1910. Huiii! I wish I could do
something to slow time down. It remind
tne of a story.
"Years ago, a good many years, there
was a man in New York who advertised
a cure for something, I don't remember
what, but it was some common affliction
of mankind, and this cure he had discov
ered somewhere oft in some faraway
country, and now he wanted to commu
nicate this to the world at large for the
benefit of his fellow men, and ho adver
tised It and he used to ulart off his ad
vertisement like this:
" 4A retired physician whOBe sands of
life have nearly run out and then he
UMed to go ahead and tell about his won
derful discovery and about how now he
wanted to make It known to all: and a
man out west who read this advertise
ment and whose sympathies had evidently
been aroused by It, for the old physician
himself wrote to him to say that if he'd
mix a little molasses with his sands they
wouldn't run out so fast.
"I wish I knew Just the right sort of
molasses to mix with the sands of time."
tioltia; to Extremes.
A buxom colored sister approached her
pastor and said: "Ilrudder Johnsing, me
an' my ole man don't agree at all. We
Is all de time quarrelln'. Will you oblige
me wld some advice?"
The pastor replied: "Sister Jackson, has
yo' tried heapln' coals of fire on his head?"
Klin then exclaimed: "No, Brudder
Johnsing, but I'se tried hot water." Mack's
National Monuny.
FREAKS OF A REAL CYCLONE
Strange tapers of an Aitamu
Thriller In the Interior or
Tennessee.
"Cyclones are not what they used to be
in the old days," complained Colonel A.
M. Hughes of Columbia, Tenn., while talk
ing In Washington of the recent storm that
swept his home state.
"The cyclone which devastated part's of
Tennessee a couple of weeks ago killed a
larte number of persons; Just how many
probably never will be known. But I
haven't heard of any freaks perpetrated
by the storm. Houses were blown down
and people were crushed to death, but
the storm seemed to spare nothing In its
path.
"Ten years ago, when the town of Co
lumbia was visited by the cyclone which
tore up a 4arge part of that section of
the state, about sixteen lives were iak
In and about the town. After the storm
had subsided reports of its peculiar antics
began to come in. On a nearby farm a
house which had been constructed In a
more than Visually substantial manner was
absolutely twisted and ground to pieces.
The bricks were hammered apart and the
timbers were twisted into kindling wood.
Yet within 100 yards a flimsy shack which
was used as a chicken house was left
untouched. A man of any strength at
all could have pushed it over with his
shoulder.
"On another farm a huge tree was
found transfixed by a beam carried from
a house.
"The timber had been hot through the
tree as neatly as an arrow through a tin
target. Why the beam was not shattered
to splinters by the terrible Impact no one
could tell. But the perforated tree with
the captlvo timber stood there to prove the
story. '
"The entrance of the government arsenal
at Columbia was guarded by an Immense
stone pillar on either side. The gtorm con
fined Its attention to these pillars. They
were literally torn from the ground and
broken to pieces. Cyclones of these days
Just go around killing people without doing
a single Interesting stunt. "-Washington
Post,
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