By courtesy of Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago Method of cooking meats for canning. Monthly output, 10,000 cans.

The methods of those great enterprises which cater to the appetite of millions of people throughout the world furnish an interesting study. To the multitudes who partake of the tempting products of these establishments, the extent and variety of their output is little understood, and the degree to which the delicacies therein manufactured tend to lessen the culinary labors of the average household, especially in the summer season, is hardly realized.

Among, the mammoth concerns which fill the world's mouth with skillfully contrived edibles, one, located in Chicago, may be taken as a representative plant, for the purpose of this article.

Preparing Jewish meats. (Kosher)

The cooking and canning facilities of this company cover a space of six acres and include a floor area of fifty acres. The department devoted to cutting meats has a capacity of disposing of 250 cattle per hour, and 15,000 cattle are slaughtered weekly in the plant. Its power-house refrigerator contains eighteen boilers, with a capacity of 750 tons per day

The number of people employed in the concern in 3,000 and their annual earnings amount to about $15,000. These toilers handle 10,000,000 cans of prepared meats, soups, etc., every month, which necessitates the use of 500,000 boxes of tin plate annually.

By courtesy of the H. J. Heinz Co. Canning beans The above-shown plant has a capacity of putting up 40,000 cans of beans per day.

Among the specialties in delicatessen manufactured by this concern may be mentioned the following: Veal loaf, Melrose pate, luncheon loaf, lunch tongues, ham loaf, beef loaf, chicken loaf, Vienna sausage, club-house sausage, sliced smoked beef, corned beef hash, potted and deviled meats, turkey and tongue, boneless chicken, and ten varieties of soups. These are put up in packages running from one-quarter of a pound to six pounds. This is but one of several vast establishments engaged in the same industry, and in the same locality. Taken togethe, their product is sufficient to supply the demand of the entire world for goods of this description.

By courtesy of the Detroit Photographic Co. A great industry—picking peas at Mount Morris, Illinois.

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