TEST ON LEAF LARD RENDERED INTO NEUTRAL.
| Raw leaves | 8,958 | pounds at | $ 0 | .08¹⁄₈ | per pound | = | $727.84 | |
| Salt for settling | 35 | pounds at | 4 | .90 | per ton | = | .09 | |
| $727.93 | ||||||||
| Production: | ||||||||
| Neutral lard | 7,880 | pounds at | $0 | .09125 | per pound | = | $718.96 | |
| Neutral bottoms | 1,055 | pounds | ||||||
| (Run under forty pounds pressure two and one-half hours.) | ||||||||
| Prime steam lard | 497 | pounds at | 0 | .082 | per pound | = | 40.75 | |
| Tankage | 56 | pounds at | 18 | .00 | per ton | = | .45 | |
| $760.16 | ||||||||
| Gain on production | $ 32.23 | |||||||
| Gain per 100 pounds on raw weight, $0.036. | ||||||||
| Percentage Production: | ||||||||
| Neutral lard to raw weight | 87.97 | |||||||
| Neutral bottoms to raw weight | 11.78 | |||||||
| Prime steam lard to raw weight | 5.55 | |||||||
| Tankage to raw weight | .63 | |||||||
| Prime steam lard to weight of bottoms | 47.11 | |||||||
| Tankage to weight of bottoms | 5.31 | |||||||
| Total production of lards | 93.52 | |||||||
| Total production of raw weights | 94.15 | |||||||
| Tanking Leaf Lard: | ||||||||
| Raw leaves | 1,000 | pounds at | $ 0 | .08125 | per pound | = | $ 81.25 | |
| Prime steam lard | 929 | pounds at | 0 | .0825 | per pound | = | 76.18 | |
| Tankage | 5 | pounds at | 18 | .00 | per ton | |||
| Loss on production | $ 5.07 | |||||||
| Loss per pound on raw weight | .0051 | |||||||
| Prime steam lard to raw weight, per cent, 92.9. | ||||||||
Test—Chilling and Tanking.
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TEST ON CHILLED LEAF LARD TO DETERMINE VALUE AND YIELD.
| Warm leaf lard to cooler | 1,000 lbs. | ||||||||
| Chilled leaf lard | 986 lbs. | ||||||||
| Shrinkage, 1.4 per cent | 14 lbs. | ||||||||
| Weight to test tank, 986 pounds; value per cwt., $7,556. | |||||||||
| Yield prime steam lard | 94 | .12 | per cent; | 928 | lbs. at | $8 | .025 | per cwt. | $74.47 |
| Yield tankage (pressed) | .81 | per cent; | 8 | lbs. at | 9 | .89 | per ton | .04 | |
| Total | $74.51 | ||||||||
Test.
—Showing manipulation of 5,000 pounds of back fat to make neutral, kettle rendered lard and pure steamed lard:
TEST ON 5,000 POUNDS OF BACK FAT CONVERTED TO NO. 2 NEUTRAL KETTLE RENDERED LARD AND PRIME STEAM LARD.
| Net wt. lbs. | Per cent. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Back fat | 5,000 | ||
| Less skins removed | 586 | = | 11.72 |
| Skinned back fat rendered to No. 2 neutral | 4,414 | ||
| Production No. 2 neutral | 1,846 | = | 41.82 |
| Bottoms left in kettle | 2,568 | ||
| Bottoms from No. 2 neutral rendered to kettle rendered lard | 2,568 | ||
| Stearine added | 270 | = | 10.51 |
| Total | 2,838 | ||
| Production of kettle rendered lard from above | 1,940 | = | 68.36 |
| Bottoms from No. 2 neutrals | 898 | ||
| Kettle rendered bottoms | 673 | ||
| Loss on production | 225 | ||
| Bottoms from kettle rendered to prime steam lard to tank | 673 | ||
| Production of prime steam lard | 307 | = | 45.62 |
| Skins from back fat rendered to prime steam lard | 586 | ||
| Production of prime steam lard | 192 | = | 32.76 |