Identifier: seeingamericafir418colb (find matches)
Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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possible. If the creatures could know how very useful they are to be, it would be quite a comfort tothem, for besides being made into dried, canned, smoked, or fresh meat, they furnish materialsfor fertilizer, brushes, oils, glue, lard, leather, hairpins, mattresses, and many other things. Thepackers say that they can use every part of an ox but its kick and every part of a pig but its squeal. After the meat is prepared for the market, it is kept two days in a great chilling room whereten thousand sides of beef can be chilled at one time. It was interesting to see the sausage meat being pressed into the intestines of the pigs, forthe big machines can fill a mile of skins a minute. We saw them making lard, too, and are proudto say that American lard is shipped all over the world and is considered the best. The reason thatAmerican meat products are so good is because the inspectors do not allow any carelessness. r~^~ v/cenein Chilling Room Cattle. Union -Ttock Y&roV Meot Inspection
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Chicago has so many fine sky-scrapers that we Berry Wagon Boys had almost passed thesplendid Harvester Building with just a glance when the man we were with stopped us and said:Take a good look at that building, for if a boy had not had ideas and perseverance, it wouldnever have been built. His name was Cyrus McCormick, and he lived in Virginia. In the black-smith shop on his fathers farm, Cyrus and his father used to make lots of labor-saving things andthe boy decided that he would invent a machine which would harvest the wheat better and morequickly than could be done by hand. He spent every spare minute working on the inventionand was twenty-one years old when he saw his first reaper at work in the harvest field. He thoughtthat every farmer would want to buy one, but it was ten years before he sold his first machine.Soon after this he sold another and after that, the orders came so fast that he went out west tothe little city of Chicago, which was quite young in 1847, and built his

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