* BEEF TRUST METHODS, THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS GROUND DOWN BY PITILESS CORPORATIONS. Inhuman Treatment of Men and Women Who Are Forced to Work in Great Establishments.~In Lows est Depths of Misery, By UrroN SINCLAIR, (New York World ) It is literally the truth that the pack- ers treat their men like dogs. There is no place in all Packingtown where the slightest consideration is shown for a human being. They are com: pelled to be 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 be on hand the bosses will start them up before the whistles blow, and cheat them that way. If they are working overtime and do not make a full hour, even though they fail by only five minutes, they get nothing for it. If any error is made 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 conditions in Packingtown have reached their present state of degrad- ation by the natural process of com petition, or rather, there is competi tion of labor while there is no competi tion of capital. There but one vast employing trust and body of absolutely unorganized and helpless types of human are coming there. There a regular cession of the races through Packing town; the industry was founded by skilled cattle butchers from Germany: then they began the importing of Irish men. After the strike of 1894 they set to work deliberately to crowd the labor market so as prevent further trou bles; first they brought Poles, then Bi mians, then Lithuanians, and finally Slovaks These nearly undersized, wretched who ca not English, one aving than a dumb animal them and faces. | fairly made poor, wret truck in it loaded fell was the floor and boss fell an f the nlae i is a beings has been pro to e now are people speak as h no one was incline con upon out of re Ar and | iis place VISIT] othe OMPELLED TO 1¢ things is SALOONS f th ) i pointed out In the th: eport » no mses and outside get away from the falling snow conversation with of tha packers I spoke of the horribly low wages that | were neta Lo ine men, and he answered | weft there was no in paying any | more, because the balance went to the | one use — er oy a Ta J. OGDEN ARMOUR, TWO PROMINENT MEN saloon keeper. My reply was that for one thing 1 had observed that the com panies 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 Prior 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 Packingtown was between $5 and $6: since the strike, conditions have of course grown worse A friend of mine who has recently been making investigations for me stated that he oon on a Saturday night lopes of IN THE stood in a sal and gathered up the pay enve the men as they came in and got thelr cashed He collected over a score. and the average Was lens than $1 there were some as low as $1.70 This represented a week's WAgRes for an able-bodied man in Packingtown at a dull season checks en FROM THE BEEF TRUST REPORT. Extract From Neill-Reynolds Docu- ment Which the President Sent to Congress. “An absence of cleanliness was found everywhere in the handling of meat being prepared for the various meat food products. * * * “As an extreme example of the en tire disregard on the part of employes of any notion of cleanliness in handling dressed meat, we saw a hog that had mt been killed, cleaned, washed, ant LE head 0.0 $I AY ASAE TH wooden floor and slide part way into a filthy men’s tollet. 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 pigskin, and even some bits 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 for fertilizers where a “bone barrel” place could be placed. To reduce hones to fertilizer without | the use of acids takes time, but for the home garden it Is well worth wait ing for. Put in a barrel three or four inches of soil, then a closely packed layer of bones, broken up somewhat, and cover these with wood ashes and liguid manure from the wet with MAL i TI, SHELTERED CRATER ED FOR POULTRY STE hened of washing sm™moun layer«s gs there are bones enough until the barrel Is full. Cover with rounding the surface, and sow soll, with | dover or grass seed, or plant the top with some plant that will knit the soll together as a cover, that will not let through much moisture. In a year's UPTON TRUST time empty the barrel, spade the con tents together, make into a heap, and let It stand for a month, then use as wanted RINCLAIR BEE} INVESTIGATION Country Autoing on Col “Hello! whats that ofr started on its way to the cooling room tall from the sliding rail to a dirty And after looking Ving FERS PROFITS IN CHICKENS. 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- ber of fowls that are grown upon the wheat flelds 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 estal- lished enormous finishing plants, as they are ealled, for the feeding, fat. tening and preparing of poultry of all kinds for market. The fowlshereare re- celved In large numbers, placed In that hold from three to five birds, according to their size, and are “trough-fed"—that Is, they are fed a mixture of ground menls properly pre pared in troughs, and permitted to ent much as they will consume, from three to five times per day, Poultry crate-fattened in this way will continue to eat well and thrive from nine to twelve days, Ro soon as they to feed themselves ravens ously from these troughs, what is known as the cramming machine 18 brought into service. The manipulator of the eramming machine must have experience in the handling and feed of the fowls In this way. The Coops ius cease I | CRATE-FATTENING, AT WORK composed placed crami ng ( feed trough o the top of tn plunger ’ Wer le ns 4 far re after the top, placed the the eylinder is filled with the properly prepared food, and with the pressure of the foot upon the lever, the food I9 forced through the tube into the crop of the fowl THE CRAMMER I'he operator in charge - sehine | mg i Hi n AN EXPERT. of the cram 1 suietants IS ROVeT 8 Verad Wp io (kinds, to conform [of the irket, and middlings, m milk or water or mixed food is 1 first 12 to 14 day During this period, | grit and plenty of | where they can hel they show a feeding ther and grit removed from and the stuffing machine brought Into service, The same meals mixed into a gruel are used for this purpose, the food forced into the crop y requis mind oat «1 with very dr ! » use of for tl trough feeding the fowls | water to drinl y themsels m into disposit all the SOON AN stop selves, water trough, in the Glorious Fourth. 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The quid fox «1 ¢ fattening of fatty entire on poultry with cory throughout A fowl that has 1 fattened Ww ‘ usually +} ! the | globules reass rn Is Love 10 for y this | } both in this country and abroad. PACKING FOR MARKET In packing Inxes it wil kens ’ nner is the juars tl is ch 1h Farmers i) large oun ) i rougn send- | fowls to 1 rk« ‘ ! © kind and poultry It 8 es the profit in what the ch handle this I% en carviessn their graded a pack br the highest rices that mak wultry growing Ih rege packing houses jundreds of thousands Is ng the finest quality a In wh of fowls in way, alm to make of all they fatten. — — Cultivation of Garden Crops. Frequent shallow cultivation should be employed for garden Crops, and during dry weather the depth should not exceed 2 inches, By keep the surface well stirred what termed a “dust mulch” ind while this laver of finely pulver ized soll will become quite dry, it pre- | vents the escape of moisture through the of the A mulch con- sisting of fine manure, clippings from lawn, or similar material, most ing soll in pores soll any the plants will preserve the moisture; but the mulch should not be wo heavy or matted as to exclude the nr A crust forming over the soll after a rain or watering detrimental to plant growth and should be broken up ne as the land ean be worked, To determine when the soll Is suf ficiently dry for cultivation, apply the gnme test of squeezing together in the hand as is utilized In determining when to plow, Sandy soils can worked much sooner than clay solls after a min, Too much Importance sO0n he |eultivation of the garden, and If the | work Is promptly and properly done there will be little difficulty in cone | trotting weeds, Permanently Cared No fits or nervousness after FITS fret day's mee of Dr Kline's Great Nerve He | storer. 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