Oeuvres complètes

Food products (Vol. 1, nr. 12)

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Identifikator:: 836084659

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28892

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ricardo, David

Title:: Oeuvres complètes

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Guillaumin

Year of publication:: 1847

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 752 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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ARMOUR AND COMPANY To look behind the scenes of an industry which produces products that we use every day, and rather take for granted, is a very unusual experience for the ordinary consumer. There probably is no industry, the products of which we take quite so much for granted, as we do those of the packing industry. In the beginning, the industry, as exemplified by Armour and Company, was planned to handle hogs in a very seasonal way. Armour and Company began back in the early sixties and it was formed by Philip D. Armour and John Plankinton, to provide hams and bacon and other cured pork products for the people of the East who were gathering in ever increas- ing numbers in the manufacturing centers which then were almost exclusively along the Atlantic seaboard. Another fea- ture in the business was the provisioning of home seekers and of the thousands who were passing from the East to the West, hunting gold, or returning from their search to their homes in the East. The hogs that were slaughtered for that provision business were hogs that were produced in the territory immed- lately adjacent to Chicago or Milwaukee, and the slaughtering was confined to the late fall and winter months exclusively. Cattle slaughter was conducted on a very restricted scale and the market was, of course. local. There were no store houses of any consequence in which might be kept the accumulations that were acquired during the slaughtering season. The pork was packed into barrels, and the barrels were placed in mountainous piles out on the prairie adjacent to the slaughtering house, there to await dis- tribution throughout the year. The people of the East had a real need for the products of live stock because in them was the food so necessary to maintain the vigor and the strength of the laborers in manufacturing plants. And the people of the West, or Middlewest, had just as real need for such pack- ng activities as did the people of the East, because it was in that manner that their markets were broadened and the people of New York became the principal consumers of the products that were raised in surplus quantities in the West.

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