WHAT A STEER IS MADE UP OF.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 301, 19 December 1908, Page 3

WHAT A STEER IS MADE UP OF.

A 1200-pound steer when dressed, according to modern packing-house conditions, will yield, says the National Frovisioner of Chicago, as follows:—Ribs, 1651b; loins, 115; round, 165; chucks, 150; plates, 113; shanks, 45; flanks, 24; suet, 28; kidneys, 2; tongue, 5; hide, 65; oleo oil, 25; oleo stearine, 13.20; tallow, 5.21; hair, 12; glue, 1.55; cheek, 5.; brains, 5; lips, 1; heart, 3.5 ;~ liver, 10; tail, 1.25; sweetbreads, 2; medicinal glands, 6; tripe, 8; casings, 5.07; fertiliser, 24.75; hoofs, 1.75; shins, 1.5; neat's foot oil, 1; butter stock, 1.25; raw bone, 13; horns, 75; blood, 1.20.; total, 881.56 Ib. These figures are said by independent packers to be extremely conservative. The uses of the several parts are: From hides, leather; from , tallow, soap, glycerine, butterine, lubricator, and candles; from blood, albumen, fertiliser, and stock food; from the hoofs, buttons, hairpins, fertiliser, glue, and fancy goods; from the tankage, which includes all manner of " refuse," fertiliser and stock food; from th© oleo, oil, butterine, and compound lard; from the intestines, sausage casings, brewers' hose, and snuff packages; from the bladder, casings and packages for putty, lard, snuff; from the tail, hair for mattresses and upholstering; from the bones, buttons, glue, polish, leather dressing, lubricant, and illuminant; from the bone meal, stock food, fertiliser, material for tempering steel, anhydrous ammonia, and glue. The tongue, cheek, brain, lips, heart, liver, tail, sweetbreads and tripe are ali sold for meat. There is nothing wasted but the water in the carcase.