Thursday, hard thundershowers in am, some sun in pm, showers again at night. I ironed nearly all day. The girls and I went to prayer meeting. Wayne and Linda brought us home. Clifton was laid off Cairo job. He took Angus heifer to packing house in pm to have butchered. Home late.
Comment: Looks like they are going to have some steak to eat. Probably the heifer was too big for Dad and the boys to handle so they are having it done at the Prattsville slaughterhouse. I remember going there several times. This was before all the hi-tech killing stuff. The calves and cows were hit in the head with a sledgehammer. The moment they went down, one man put a hook through a rear leg hamstring while another man slit the animals throat and it was hoisted up to a conveyor belt and was bleeding out on the way the gutting and skinning operations. The whole killing floor was awash in blood and body fluids. Not a pretty sight...to find out why the Food And Drug Act was passed in 1906, read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It will curl you toes.......
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