Identifier: journalofdepartm10vict (find matches)
Title: The Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture -- Australia Victoria
Publisher: (Melbourne): Dept. of Agriculture, Victoria
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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in the Llaite 1 Kingdom, and the recognition of this willbear fruit in the immediate future in the general impetus which will thus be given to the pig industry, andthe general construction of bacortfactories in the country as an essen-tial part of agricultural develop-ment. This undertaking is purely co-operative. r>ach shareholder has-to sign a bond under a penalty of10s. per pig to supply such baconpigs as he produces and all of them-to the factory. Every shareholdershares in the profits in the form ofa bonus proportionate to the num-ber of pigs he supplies. Of the 2.800 shareholders themajority were small farmers. As-already stated, shareholders sign aguarantee to supply all their pigsof weights required in the bacontrade, to their own factory. Thisdefeats unfair competition, whereenhanced prices are offered to in-duce them to send pigs away. In constructing the buildings, it was arranged that each departmentor set of operations should follow \w sequence as far as possible. Pigs
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BLEEDING PASSAGE. 164 Journal of Agriculture, \ ictoria. (10 March, 1912. are landed at the receiving platform where they are weighed alive, andthe suppliers can be paid on that basis at once, if they so desire. Thedead weight is ascertainable usually the day following delivery, and aver-ages about 25 per cent. less. After weighing, the pigs are driven into sties, allowed to remain over-night and usually killed next morning. They are driven one by oneinto the catching pen, where they are shackled or caught up by means ofleg chains, a running noose being formed by means of a chain slippedthrough a ring; this noose is passed over one hind foot. The chain isthen attached to a hook at the end of n steel rope which is governed byhand or powerhoist. Hoisted tooverhead bar in thisposition, they areslaughtered by stick-ing in the directionof the heart, lettingthe blood outquickly. This opera-tion does not takemore than oneminute. The carcases arepushed along theoverhead bar to thebleeding pas

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